“Most people seem to think I’m the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I’m bookish and worrisome.”

-Burt Lancaster (via cineimages)

Janet Langard & Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer (1968, dir. Frank Perry, based on a short story by John Cheever)

It was one of those mid-summer Sundays when everyone sits around saying I drank too much last night.

Burt Lancaster walks into a world of trouble in The Killers (1946, dir. Robert Siodmak, co-starring Ava Gardner)

Burt Lancaster & Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity (1953, dir. Fred Zinnemann) (via)