If you're a bad actor, you don't get hired. But if you're a bad doctor, you can still practice medicine. - Richard Burton

Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do with my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous 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.

I stayed in bed all day yesterday, for instance, while she [Elizabeth Taylor] spent the entire day until well after midnight sitting in the main room, gossiping, etc. And, of course, inevitably sipping away at the drinks... What is more frightening is that she has become bored with everything in life.