Richard Burton

"I believe in pursuing excellence in whatever you do."

"The most important thing is to live with integrity."

"I have the finest company in the world - myself."

"The more you read, the more things you will know; the more you learn, the more places you'll go."

"Beauty is a terrible power."

"I'm a very serious man, but I have a wonderful sense of humor."

"Acting is the art of lying well."

"I drink, I gamble, I've been to bed with women of all kinds. I've lied, cheated, and stolen."

"Boddington's is the most beautiful word in the English language."

"The only real lust should be lust for life."

"I belong nowhere, and to no one."

"Some people are born to greatness, some achieve it, and some have it thrust upon them."

"I have one Rolls Royce, which I adore and drive carefully."

"My problem is that I have a brain and a penis, and only blood enough to run one at a time."

"The great secret is not to go through life thinking you are a failure."

"Anybody who calls me an egomaniac is beneath me."

"My voice is like an untamed instrument."

"The Welsh are too poor to have a mafia."

"I have a terrible memory, but I have a wonderful imagination."

"Confucius did say that the man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it."

"I'm a romantic and a dreamer."

"Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude."

"I play a lot of characters who are violent."

"You don't move on from death; you move forward with it."

"I fear God and God alone."

"The reason I drink is because when I get drunk, I'm still more intelligent than most people when they're sober."

"I believe that life owes me nothing whatsoever."

"I cannot remember a time when I was not afraid."

"When you are older, you'll understand that style isn't something that exists in things."

"I'm not a eunuch. I don't want to be an eunuch."