David Niven Quotes - Famous Quotes by David Niven
Born: 1910-03-01
Died: 1983-07-29
David Niven Biography
Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
- David Niven
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I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes cupboard.
- David Niven
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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.
- David Niven
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I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.
- David Niven
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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.
- David Niven
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I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a bestseller... 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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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
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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.
- David Niven
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Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
- David Niven
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