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1925–1984 Wales
Richard Burton, CBE (November 10, 1925– August 5, 1984) born Richard Walter Jenkins was a Welsh actor noted for his mellifluous baritone voice and his great acting talent. Establishing himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, with a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964, Burton was called "the natural successor to Olivier" by critic and dramaturg Kenneth Tynan.
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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
She can do everything…there’s nothing she can’t do...she looks after me so well. Thank God I’ve found her.’
The only thing in life is language. Not love. Not anything else.
Most people believe that when a dog howls near a house it forebodes death, for it is said a dog can distinguish the awful form of Azra'il, the Angel of Death.
If you're a bad actor, you don't get hired. But if you're a bad doctor, you can still practice medicine.
The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
Endpapers of the original 1906 run of the Everyman's Library.
I wanted that diamond because it is incomparably lovely. And it should be on the loveliest woman [Elizabeth Taylor] in the world.
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
My father considered that anyone who went to chapel and didn't drink alcohol was not to be tolerated. I grew up in that belief.
I'm afraid we are temporarily out in the cold, and fallen stars. What is remarkable is that we have stayed up there for so long.
Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry,
Black Sheep in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
Although I like to be thought of as a tough rugby-playing Welsh miner's son, able to take on the world, the reality is that this image is just superficial. I am the reverse of what people think.
You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side; maybe for years. You get scared. He said then he thought he was coming out of a slump.
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