King Henry II: Have you any idea how much trouble I took to make you noble?
Thomas a Becket: I think so; I recall, you pointed a finger and said, "Thomas Becket, you are noble." The Queen and your mother became very agitated.


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket

Diana: Are you still ill?
Marcellus Gallio: No, I'm well. Really well, for the first time in my life.


--Richard Burton (as Marcellus Gallio) in The Robe

Diana: Perhaps you don't believe that a girl of eleven could fall in love, and stay in love all these years...
Marcellus Gallio: Don't cry, my love. Lucia thought I was in love, and I laughed at her, but women are wise in these matters.


--Richard Burton (as Marcellus Gallio) in The Robe

Caligula: You put him to death? Then why are you risking your life for him?
Marcellus Gallio: I owe Him more than my life.


--Richard Burton (as Marcellus Gallio) in The Robe

Mrs. Tanner: What do you *really* want, Jimmy?
Jimmy Porter: Everything... nothing.


--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger

Helena Charles: God Jimmy, what's going to become of us?
Jimmy Porter: I don't know.


--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger

Helena Charles: How was it?
Jimmy Porter: It was a funeral... no flowers, no word, no sign...
Helena Charles: What do you mean?
Jimmy Porter: I mean Alison... the injustice of it is about perfect - the wrong people going hungry, the wrong people being loved, the wrong people dying.


--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger

Helena Charles: I think you're a very tiresome young man.
Jimmy Porter: Oh dear, oh dear, my wife's friends. Pass Lady Bracknell the cucumber sandwiches.


--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger

Helena Charles: If you'd stop thinking about yourself for just one moment, I'll tell you something I think you ought to know. You wife is going to have a baby!
[pause]
Helena Charles: Well? Doesn't that mean anything? Even to you?
Jimmy Porter: [pause] If you'd permit me to interrupt your... female wisdom, there's something perhaps you ought to know. I don't care! I don't care if she's going to have a baby. I don't care if it has 2 heads!
[pause]
Jimmy Porter: Well, do I disgust you? Go on, slap my face! I just came back from seeing somebody I love very much go through the sordid process of dying. And you expect me to be overcome with awe because some stupid, cruel girl is going to have a BABY?
[pause]
Jimmy Porter: Now the performance is over. Now leave me alone - and get out, you evil-minded little virgin!


--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger

Helena Charles: Shut up - you've no right to talk about her mother like that.
Jimmy Porter: I've every right haven't I. She's an old cow and she should be dead. Well, what's the matter, why don't you spring to her defense? If someone said that about me she'd react soon enough - she'd spring into a well-known lethargy and say nothing.


--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger