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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."

"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
Explore more quotes by Richard 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."

"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."

"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."

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

"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."

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

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