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. (David Niven)
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. (David Niven)
Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity. (David Niven)
I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in . (David Niven)
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. (David Niven)
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. (David Niven)
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. (David Niven)
You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down. (David Niven)
Realities of life for happy and unhappy people are basically the same. (David Niven)
I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet. (David Niven)
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end. (David Niven)