Burt Lancaster Quotations

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

You have to fight against being an antique

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

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

My former wife is a truly wonderful person.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

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

They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.

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

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

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

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

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

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

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

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

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

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

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

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

I wasn't really portraying a columnist, but a heel. Otherwise I'd have spent time in newspaper offices, studying the characterization. No, I just played a heel who happened to be a columnist.

I did something wrong -- once.

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

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.

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We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,

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

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

The first duty of life is to live.

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.