When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Quote by Richard Burton

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If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.

If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything...

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything...

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me...

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me...

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship...

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship...

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the...

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the...

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the...

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the...

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that...

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that...

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than...

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than...

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for...

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for...

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby...

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby...

There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds;...

There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds;...

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask

Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?