Burt Lancaster famous quotes

06-23-2025

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

#Champion #Feelings #Hunger
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Trying #Way #Originality
I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.
-- Burt Lancaster
When two partners always agree, one of them aint necessary.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Two #Partners #Agree
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Men #Married #Kind
I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Busy #Keep Busy
I feel that I am a good actor.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Actors #Feels
We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,
-- Burt Lancaster

#Memorial #Needs #Film
You have to fight against being an antique
-- Burt Lancaster

#Fighting #Antiques
Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death
-- Burt Lancaster

#Succeed #Sometimes
I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Hate #I Hate #Sneak
I walked out of class one day and I never went back
-- Burt Lancaster

#Class #One Day
I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any
-- Burt Lancaster

#Tonight #Wanted
Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946
-- Burt Lancaster

#Men #Hollywood #Young
I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Garbage #Turned Down
I had the luck of having an obedient body.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Luck #Body
Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Want #Firsts
As long as you are curious, you defeat age.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Long #Curiosity #Age
I'm-going-to-tilt-my-head-at-a-perpendicular-angle-and-then-attempt-to-extract-your-soul-through-your-mouth-like-some-giant-alien-sucker-fish
-- Burt Lancaster

#Soul #Giants #Tilt
I did something wrong -- once.
-- Burt Lancaster
The first duty of life is to live.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Good Life #Firsts #Life Is
A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Mother #Rewards #Circus
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.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Dream #Real #Waiting
Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Men #Alcoholics #Disappointed
You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Believe #Enough #Make Believe
I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Believe #People #Levels
Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
-- Burt Lancaster

#Committees
I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Coffee #Judging #Bread
My brother never had me to dinner in his life.
-- Burt Lancaster

#Brother #Dinner #My Brother

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