A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
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 rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer; it's rather an attractive image.
I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
Well, I don't want to kill myself.
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
Richard spent time as an officer cadet in the RAFin the late 1940's, but was unable to be a pilot due to his lack of perfect eyesight.
Richard was accepted to Oxford University when he was only 16 years old.
He was the twelfth child of 13 children born to Richard ‘Dic’ Walter and Edith Jenkins.
Richard's mother died when he was only 2 years old and he was then raised by his sister, Cis.
Since Elizabeth was unable to have any more children, she and Richard adopted a German girl as their daughter and named her Maria.
Richard won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for "Camelot" in 1961.
Richard was the best man at Laurence Olivier's marriage to Joan Plowright in New York City on March 17, 1961.
He taught Shakespeare to future actress Catherine Oxenberg when she was 13 years old.
Together with Peter O'Toole, he currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations (7) without a single win.
Richard was married twice to actress Elizabeth Taylor, both ending in divorce.
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