Biography
Born in London, England
Died in Château-d’Oex, Switzerland
David Niven Quotes
“Actors never retire. They’re just offered fewer parts.”
“Doris Day is one of the most difficult actresses I’ve met. She spent so much time crying.”
“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.”
“In 40 years, I’ve never been late. They pay me enough - so the least I can do is arrive sober, be on time and know all the jokes.”
“You can count on Errol Flynn, he’ll always let you down.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.”
“I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .”
“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.”
“Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don’t take anything too seriously, it’ll all work out in the end.”
“The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.”
“Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.”
“Malta is a sod of a place.”
