Richard Burton movie quotes

“What am I? How can I will death?”
Richard Burton - John Morlar

“- Maj. Smith: Lieutenant, in the next 15 minutes we have to create enough confusion to get out of here alive.
- Schaffer: Major, right now you got me about as confused as I ever hope to be.”
Richard Burton - Maj. Smith
Clint Eastwood - Schaffer

“- Colonel Allen Faulkner: Is your wife at home?
- R.S.M. Sandy Young: Yes sir, she'll be delighted to see you.
- Colonel Allen Faulkner: I don't think so. I think we'd better talk out here!”
Richard Burton - Colonel Allen Faulkner
Jack Watson - R.S.M. Sandy Young

“I am the man with the power to create catastrophe.”
Richard Burton - John Morlar

“- Winston Smith: I know you'll fail. Something in this world... some spirit you will never overcome...
- O'Brien: What is it, this principle?
- Winston Smith: I don't know. The spirit of man.”
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith
Richard Burton - O'Brien

“There is a clause in all of my contracts, that my liver is to be buried separately, and, with honors.”
Richard Burton - Colonel Allen Faulkner

“- Mary Ellison: I nearly froze to death in that damn plane. Why couldn't you have supplied some hot water bottles or an electrically heated suit? I thought you loved me.
- Maj. Smith: Can't help what you think.”
Mary Ure - Mary Ellison
Richard Burton - Maj. Smith

“Power is not a means, it's an end.”
Richard Burton - O'Brien

“- Sir Edward Matherson: Then I suppose you'd better kill me.
- Colonel Allen Faulkner: You're a remarkable man too, Sir Edward. So I suppose I better had.”
Stewart Granger - Sir Edward Matherson
Richard Burton - Colonel Allen Faulkner

“- Colonel Allen Faulkner: All right. You've got the job.
- Arthur Witty: Do I have time to get a divorce?
- Colonel Allen Faulkner: Thirty-six hours.”
Richard Burton - Colonel Allen Faulkner
Kenneth Griffith - Arthur Witty

“- O'Brien: Smith? I have been reading your Newspeak articles in the Times.
- Winston Smith: Yes?
- O'Brien: You write it very elegantly. That is not my own opinion - I was recently talking to a friend of yours who is an expert.”
Richard Burton - O'Brien
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“- Sarah Norton: Have you thought about going to bed with me?
- Ashley St. Clair: Yes.
- Sarah Norton: Let's.
- Ashley St. Clair: Obviously, no.
- Sarah Norton: Why? Is it because you think I'm a virgin? Because if you think I am...
- Ashley St. Clair: You are.
- Sarah Norton: I am.”
Tatum O'Neal - Sarah Norton
Richard Burton - Ashley St. Clair

“- Schaffer: Look, Major, this is primarily a British operation. I'm an American. I don't even know why the hell I'm here.
- Maj. Smith: Lieutenant, you're here because you're an American.”
Clint Eastwood - Schaffer
Richard Burton - Maj. Smith

“- O'Brien: The law of gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
- Winston Smith: I love you.”
Richard Burton - O'Brien
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“- Sir Edward Matherson: You drink whisky I take it, soda or water?
- Colonel Allen Faulkner: Large and straight, thank you.”
Stewart Granger - Sir Edward Matherson
Richard Burton - Colonel Allen Faulkner