Quotes by David Niven - Page 1

Malta is a sod of a place.
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Malta
Sod
Place
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But Champagne is not drinking.
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Champagne
Drinking
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Dreams don't have an expiration date.
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Dream
Inspirational
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Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.
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Actors
Retiring
Roles
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You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
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Count
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Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.
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Alcohol
Champagne
Companionship
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I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.
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Purpose
Purpose Of Life
World
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I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .
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Purpose
Happier
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Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
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War
Humanity
Unselfish
Unselfish Love
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There are wonderful people out there but also wonderful people right here.
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People
Wonderful
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Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less.
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Competition
People
Winning
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Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong.
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Choices
Jokes
Misunderstood
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Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.
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Duration
Hammocks
Making Love
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I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.
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Fields
Superstitions
Taken
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The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
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Shortcomings
Stripping
Life Man Will
Laugh
Showing
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I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
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Clothes
Complaining
Pounds
Two
Face
Between
Closet
Cross
Old
Explosion
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A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.
David Niven / Actor
Running
Life And Love
Long
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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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Work
Circus
Never Quit
Work Out
Inside
Going
Anything
End
Out
Take
Too
In The End
Seriously
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Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
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Funny Marriage
Mistake
Tomorrow
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I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.
David Niven / Actor
Men
Truth
Reality
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Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?
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Men
Laughing
Thinking
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Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
David Niven / Actor
Contentment
Too Much
Watches
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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.
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Girl
Men
Bad Girl
Handle
Should
Wonder
Young
Good Men Always
Against
Why
Good Men Bad
Anyone
Bad
Good Girls
Warned
Young Men
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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.
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Fees
School
Take Care
Writing
Years
Baker
Butcher
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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.
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Age
Felt
Old Age
One Day
Scared
Want
Young
Start Always Me
Age Always Me
Age Me Day
Stay
Creeping
Age Old Age Me
Frankly
Soon
Start
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Do something today that reflects who you are, what you are capable of, what you care about. Give yourself plenty of evidence of what you can do, and you will not doubt your abilities to do anything.
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Care
Doubt
Giving
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True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.
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Leadership
Empowering
Teaching
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I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory.
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Dream
Dirty
Wall
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Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.
David Niven / Actor
Age
Frustrated
World
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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.
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Army
Numbers
Thinking
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If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.
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Happiness
Cost
People
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You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.
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Movie
Space
Character
Healing
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As any man, I, of course, have certain preferences. Being a Scot by birth, I'm inclined to favor those with a well-scrubbed look and a hint of color in their cheeks-put there by an early walk in the chill air rather than by rouge. The smell of soap on a woman's skin or the hint of shampoo in her hair is perfume enough for me . . . Humor is important. The most beautiful woman in the world is a bore without that.
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Men
Beautiful
Color
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Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who have more, we feel bad. When we compare ourselves to those who have less, we feel grateful. Even though the truth is we have exactly the same life either way, our feelings about our life can vary tremendously based on who we compare ourselves with. Compare yourself with those examples that are meaningful but that make you feel comfortable with who you are and what you have.
David Niven / Actor
Grateful
Meaningful
Roots
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