Burt Lancaster Quotes


"I have turned down a lot of garbage lately."
- Burt Lancaster
"I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Hate)

"I had the luck of having an obedient body."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Body, Luck)

"I feel that I am a good actor."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Actor)

"I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy."
- Burt Lancaster
"I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Being)

"I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Truth, Originality)

"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Committee)

"A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Mother)

"I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Marriage, Man)

"Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Feeling, Hunger)

"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Fire, Fun)

"Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Death, Succeed)

"Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: First, Want)

"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Hollywood, Man)

"My former wife is a truly wonderful person."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Wife)

"My brother never had me to dinner in his life."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Life, Brother)

"Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Mother, Hell)

"I walked out of class one day and I never went back."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Class, Day)

"I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Coffee)

"I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Time, Education)

"You have to fight against being an antique."
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Being, Fight)