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Richard Burton
Welsh
Actor
Born:
Nov 10
,
1925
Died:
Aug 5
,
1984
Am
How
Life
Man
Me
You
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
Life
Friendship
True Friendship
New Life
Walls
Ruins
Embraces
Object
Gives
Animation
True
New
Supports
Like
False
Ivy
Decay
The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
Richard Burton
Become
Bad
Only
Bad Ones
Welsh
Who
Professional
Actor
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
Richard Burton
Best
You
Rubbish
Make
Going
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Richard Burton
Drunk
Remain
Had
Know
Drunks
Because
How
Sober
Them
Play
Played
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
Richard Burton
Indeed
He
Know
Also
Knows
How
Who
It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.
Richard Burton
Love
You
Impossible
Tell
Act
How terrible a thing time is.
Richard Burton
Time
Terrible
How
Thing
Every word I write I suspect the next day.
Richard Burton
Day
Word
Every
Write
Suspect
Next
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
Richard Burton
War
Heroes
Down
Rugby
Songs
Up
Pit
Grew
Stories
Sang
Who
Among
Played
I'm so weak at saying no.
Richard Burton
Saying
Weak
I always speak Welsh to my family.
Richard Burton
Family
Speak
Always
Welsh
'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.
Richard Burton
Almighty
Robe
Dull
Hit
Lousy
Flop
I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.
Richard Burton
Myself
Writing
Feeling
Nothing
Please
Though
Some
Head
Am
Been
May
Place
How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?
Richard Burton
You
Alien
Strangers
Live
Find
Both
Another
How
Years
Person
Eight
All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.
Richard Burton
Me
Bad Things
Bad
Always
Happened
Rome
Ever
Things
Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.
Richard Burton
Robert
Anyone
Mean
Even
Henry
Play
Played
I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.
Richard Burton
Me
Speak
Guardian
Philip
Took
Ten
Wing
Until
Schoolmaster
Became
His
English
Who
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
Richard Burton
Me
You
Justice
Will
Please
About
Only
May
Vicious
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
Richard Burton
Work
Others
Books
Lean
Fat
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
Richard Burton
Man
Woman
Something
More
Than
While
Less
Actor
Actress
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