Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard Burton

Burton lands the line like a confession you can laugh at and still feel in your ribs. "Awful rubbish" is the kind of self-lacerating phrase actors deploy when they want to sound allergic to pretension, but the second clause flips it from cheeky to bleak: he did it "in order to have somewhere to go in the morning". Work as mere destination, a reason to get out of bed, turns the glamour of the profession into a coping mechanism.

The intent is less about craft snobbery than survival. Burton is admitting that, for all the talk of artistic standards, the real terror is idleness. The subtext is addiction-adjacent: not necessarily to alcohol (though his biography haunts the sentence), but to momentum. The set becomes a substitute for stability, a structured day that keeps the darker parts of the self from taking over. "Somewhere to go" is an almost childlike need for containment, for a schedule that can stand in for meaning when meaning feels unreliable.

Context matters: Burton came up from grinding Welsh poverty into an industry that sells myth while running on compromise. Stars are expected to project taste, confidence, and control; he punctures that with a line that makes career choices sound less like strategy than panic. It also reframes "rubbish" roles as functional, even humane: sometimes you take the bad script not because you believe in it, but because the alternative is waking up to a day with no lines, no marks, no mask.