Richard Burton

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

The stage is my mistress, and I am her faithful lover.

Death is not the end; it's the curtain call.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

In the theater, every night is opening night.

Life is a dream, and we are all actors in it.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

I am a wandering minstrel, but without the lute.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Every actor is a politician; we all sell illusions.

Friendship is the wine of life.

I have no regrets, only lessons learned the hard way.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.