Quotes from Burt Lancaster

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

I walked out of class one day and I never went back.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

The first duty of life is to live.

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

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.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

My former wife is a truly wonderful person.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

I had the luck of having an obedient body.