58 Quotes About Burns

If I was to direct a movie about a super-confident guy, first of all I would hate that character. I can do a super-confident guy who crashes and burns and has to rebuild himself as somebody humble. But a super-confident guy that just gets more confident and gets the girl and the money and more success? That's not interesting.

I've always thought Ed Burns was a profoundly underrated actor. He's a great director, obviously. A great director/writer. But I think he's a stunning actor, too.

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth.

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.

One person sustained facial burns and 30 were displaced by the fire.

When Burns stops lying about us, we'll stop telling the truth about him.

Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.

I'm very sore and I've got burns on the back of my neck and down my ears. I'm starting to blister and at night I can't sleep because I can't lie on my back, it's just really sore. Mum helps me get on my clothes. ... We don't know what's in the future because I could be brain-damaged, I could be paralyzed. I could be paralyzed in the future, like 10 to 15 years. I could not be here. Time will tell if anything is going to happen.