I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.


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Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it...
HILARIE BURTON
There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.
HILARIE BURTON
Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, &#...
TIM BURTON
And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children...
LEVAR BURTON
I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, cli...
TIM BURTON
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
RICHARD BURTON
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
RICHARD BURTON
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives ne...
RICHARD BURTON
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
TIM BURTON
I always liked strange characters.
TIM BURTON
I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the h...
TIM BURTON
Dave Reichert is vulnerable. He represents a district that Kerry won. He doesn't really fit the dist...
BILL BURTON
What we're passionate about, along with Jennifer, is design from the essential elements. The raw cha...
BILL BURTON
Leadership in Congress isn't just about the personalities; it's about policies and priorities.
BILL BURTON
We liked that look, but when the steel plates came to the house, they were hot-rolled steel, so they...
BILL BURTON
Allowing Tom DeLay to sit on a committee in charge of giving out money is like putting Michael Brown...
BILL BURTON
Tom DeLay 's decision to leave Congress is just the latest piece of evidence that the Republican Par...
BILL BURTON
New Jersey families sent Congressman Scott Garrett to Washington to represent their values and compa...
BILL BURTON
Unfortunately for Speaker Hastert and his special-interest cronies, ... one photo-op press conferenc...
BILL BURTON
If you talk to any member of Congress, they will tell you that when they go home, this is what they ...
BILL BURTON
Dave Reichert is vulnerable. He represents a district that Kerry won. He doesn't really fit the dist...
BILL BURTON
It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dres...
SARAH BURTON
Facing up to non-being enables us to put our life into perspective, see it in its entirety, and ther...
NEEL BURTON
In 1949, neurologist Egas Moniz (1874-1955) received a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ‘the thera...
NEEL BURTON
If two people with no symptoms in common can both receive the same diagnosis of schizophrenia, then ...
NEEL BURTON
Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be unde...
NEEL BURTON
As it stands, the diagnostic criteria for depression are so loose that two people with absolutely no...
NEEL BURTON
Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
CLIFF BURTON
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
ROBERT BURTON
I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where ...
HILARIE BURTON
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON