Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

You've got to live life to write a book about it.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

I don't want to be no more than what I am.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

I am not sure that I can make the epigrams that you are hunting for. The truth is you have a pretty old horse to run and you’ve got to take me as I am.

The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.