David Niven Quotes (13 Quotes)


    The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.


    If I wasn't an actor I'd be unemployable, or at best the secretary to a golf club somewhere. Nine holes at that, and blue in the face with port.

    I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

    Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.


    I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

    Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

    This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

    I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.

    You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

    Realities of life for happy and unhappy people are basically the same.

    I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

    Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.


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