Burt Lancaster Quotes

I did something wrong - once.

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

You have to fight against being an antique

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

The first duty of life is to live.

Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

When two partners always agree, one of them aint necessary.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

I walked out of class one day and I never went back

I feel that I am a good actor.

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I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death

I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.