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I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid. — Sarah Burton

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. — Richard Burton

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own. — Richard Francis Burton

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. — Richard Francis Burton

Friends of my youth, a last adieu! Haply some day we meet again:
Ye ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men. — Richard Francis Burton

Man remembers and combines but does not create. — Richard Francis Burton

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton. — Charlie Rose

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue ... — Richard Francis Burton

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself. — Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins. — Richard Francis Burton

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

another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'. — Craig Brown

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

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. — Richard Burton

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice. — Richard Burton

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

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

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky. — Anthony Hopkins

Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail;
Enjoy thy shining hour of sun;
We dance along Death's icy brink,
But is the dance less full of fun? — Richard Francis Burton

Since I was a little girl, I believed I was a child of destiny, and if that is true, Richard Burton was surely my fate. — Elizabeth Taylor

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer. — Jeremy Irons

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. — Richard Francis Burton

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent. — Aneurin Barnard

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had. — Richard D. Zanuck

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us. — Richard Francis Burton

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind. — Richard Francis Burton

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

Do what thy manhood bids thee do. — Richard Francis Burton

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning. — Richard Burton

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng? — Richard Francis Burton

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Francis Burton

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. — Richard Francis Burton

Colley Cibber, are apposite here: "It is not to the actor — Richard Eugene Burton

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman. — Richard Burton

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

The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the man. — Richard Francis Burton

Home is where the Books are. — Richard Burton

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

Richard Burton is one of my heroes. — Mark Shand

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.' — Jerry Reed

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. — Richard Francis Burton

The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle. — Richard Francis Burton

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word — Frank Bough

Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off! — Timothy Dalton

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink. — Richard Burton

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17. — Francesca Annis

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense. (on Richard Burton) — Elizabeth Taylor

[ ... ] it is not easy to talk [ ... ] religion to men who measure excellence by forbidden meats [ ... ] — Richard Francis Burton

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day. — Richard Francis Burton

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine. — Richard Francis Burton