48 Quotes by Burt Lancaster

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

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

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

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

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

I wasn't really portraying a columnist, but a heel. Otherwise I'd have spent time in newspaper offices, studying the characterization. No, I just played a heel who happened to be a columnist.

I did something wrong -- once.

Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.

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.