Burt Lancaster Quotes

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

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

The first duty of life is to live.

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

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

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

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

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I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

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

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.

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

I did something wrong - once.

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

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

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

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.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

You have to fight against being an antique

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

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

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

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

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

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

I feel that I am a good actor.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death