The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
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The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional
RICHARD BURTON There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
IAN MCSHANE When I started in the profession, there were very visible actors who were Scottish, Welsh, or region...
TOM HOLLANDER Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not...
RYAN GOSLING The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
CHARLIE ROSE They're the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of our era.
NIKKI SIXX Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be...
J.I. PACKER Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. A...
JON BON JOVI For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter ...
ANEURIN BARNARD People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and th...
JON FAVREAU Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure ...
CHUCK NORRIS All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.
TARON EGERTON The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.
ERIC BRAEDEN Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.
KELLY ASBURY Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Bu...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
IAN RUSH The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives a...
PENELOPE CRUZ The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.
MICHAEL BUCKLEY I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who ...
HUNTER HAYES All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very diffi...
TOM WILKINSON I won't say there's a good Richard and a bad Richard, but I've got a switch, and when it...
RICHARD SEYMOUR I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise...
HELEN MIRREN The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper...
TRACEY ULLMAN I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ...
GALE GORDON In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless...
LOUIS DE BERNIERES You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think ...
DARREN ARONOFSKY It's important you think positively not negatively. Think about your loved ones and all the peop...
MO FARAH I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil ...
DREW GODDARD I was in and out of Yes six times. Someone once likened it to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton's ma...
RICK WAKEMAN When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, ...
LAUREN COHAN All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors...
RYAN GOSLING For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intell...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I think a lot of people who are child actors - it's a weird thing.
LORELEI LINKLATER He was only a boy from a Welsh hill village who had the good fortune to become a monk. Today he woul...
KEN FOLLETT There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing fr...
TADANOBU ASANO The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering th...
PATTI LUPONE God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't k...
GARRISON KEILLOR I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the wo...
CARLA GUGINO I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for ...
JOANNA LUMLEY Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the fa...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basic...
TONY GILROY Everybody would like to be remembered, the catch is do you want to be remembered for all the wrong r...
GARY F EVANS... For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
GREG CHALMERS For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
BERNARD HOLLAND Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all ac...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Na...
JASON ALEXANDER There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.
CASSANDRA CLARE The strong ones are the ones who realize that having a bad training day, those types of days are nec...
ASHTON EATON With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
JONAH LOMU Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their s...
RON WYDEN I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are w...
BLAIR BROWN Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
DEYTH BANGER Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintert...
LINUS TORVALDS Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
BEAU BRIDGES When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any o...
STEVE CARELL It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.
KARINE VANASSE I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Bur...
FRANCESCA ANNIS These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.
RICHARD D. ZANUCK “No Feelings are Bad,
only the ones We choose to ignore and not Explore”
ALAN KAVANAGH A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling....
DARON MALAKIAN It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that w...
CHARLIE COX If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that ar...
EVAN WILLIAMS It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people....
SEAN SPICER I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become m...
NATALIE MASSENET There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.
ALEX KURTZMAN The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It...
ROB ZOMBIE You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dream...
NICK CANNON Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibil...
TOM BRADY It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to st...
PATRICK WHITESELL You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He come...
VING RHAMES The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones wh...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!
EVA GREEN It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that'...
MORGAN FREEMAN Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character a...
COLM MEANEY It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
ROBERT W. SERVICE In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try diff...
COBIE SMULDERS That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable -...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a rati...
CHARLES GRODIN Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that's all actors and the Sunset Stri...
MELISSA MCCARTHY I think so many young girls get caught up in the challenge of being with somebody who's dangerou...
NIKKI REED I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. Thes...
TEMPLE GRANDIN Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.
KEVIN SPACEY I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor tha...
CARROLL BAKER Only good choices are free,bad ones always come with a cost.
ARTHUR LEWIS Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It...
ELIZABETH MARVEL We are the only ones who can bring God into the society to save it
SUNDAY ADELAJA Actors really are superstitious. You can always spot a group of actors at a restaurant. They're ...
GREGG HENRY It's horrible when actors say that they are apolitical.
ALI FAZAL The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
ETHEL BARRYMORE The pressure's all on Winthrop. They're the ones who are supposed to win. There's only gravy for Coa...
JAY BILAS There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY There's a good family of actors in 'Portlandia.' It's a small community with people ...
JONATHAN KRISEL When you have really good writing, you're compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may thi...
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Their ways seem harsh and wild:
They follow the beck ...
RICHARD EUGENE BURTON We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain we we...
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SIR RICHARD BURTON Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry,
Safe in the inner fold;
And maybe they hear, and...
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That is not long a-doing.
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noblest lives and noblest d...
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SIR RICHARD F BURTON Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may
blunder or plunder.
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SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
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LANCE BURTON I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
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LANCE BURTON I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
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LANCE BURTON When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that...
LANCE BURTON Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing...
LANCE BURTON We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic b...
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BURTON RASCOE I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than kn...
ROBERT BURTON Build castles in the air.
ROBERT BURTON For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world
knows.
ROBERT BURTON No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
ROBERT BURTON See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea,
one river, and see all.
ROBERT BURTON Penny wise, pound foolish.
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GARY BURTON I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from play...
GARY BURTON I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we...
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GARY BURTON There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet pla...
GARY BURTON It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough...
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GARY BURTON Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvisi...
GARY BURTON We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved....
DAN BURTON One religion is as true as another.
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BURTON CUMMINGS Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on
earth, that I think they will plead t...
ROBERT BURTON The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
ROBERT BURTON I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
ROBERT BURTON Out of too much learning become mad.
ROBERT BURTON Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
ROBERT BURTON Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
ROBERT BURTON One person's craziness is another person's reality.
TIM BURTON We all know interspecies romance is weird.
TIM BURTON One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
ROBERT BURTON No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
ROBERT BURTON The fear of death is worse than death.
ROBERT BURTON They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
ROBERT BURTON The devil is the author of confusion.
ROBERT BURTON Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
ROBERT BURTON A mere scholar, a mere ass.
ROBERT BURTON A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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ROBERT BURTON A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
ROBERT BURTON I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which ...
ROBERT BURTON What can't be cured must be endured.
ROBERT BURTON There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of...
PAUL BURTON A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
PIERRE BURTON England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as...
ROBERT BURTON Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel...
HENRY BURTON When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But ...
TIM BURTON Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,...
ROBERT BURTON All literature is political.
LEVAR BURTON For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
ROBERT BURTON 'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they
may: and as Praxiteles did by h...
ROBERT BURTON He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our hel...
ROBERT BURTON Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
ROBERT BURTON Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
ROBERT BURTON [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio
doemonum, and put deformed in their...
ROBERT BURTON Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
ROBERT BURTON The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
ROBERT BURTON Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
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ROBERT BURTON Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.
[Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outrid...
ROBERT BURTON Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report
sometimes he did "go from door to door an...
ROBERT BURTON Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
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BRUCE BURTON As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
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PAUL BURTON He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
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ROBERT BURTON Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is look...
TIM BURTON Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves
two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON Men are four:
He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun
him;
He who kno...
LADY BURTON Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time,
which every day produces, and which mo...
ROBERT BURTON For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON All places are distant from heaven alike.
ROBERT BURTON As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and
some of our city captains and carpet ...
ROBERT BURTON There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
NAT BURTON I’m doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be comple...
JESSIE BURTON We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. W...
LEVAR BURTON How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is ...
DAN BURTON