David Niven Quotes

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David Niven

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 1, 1909

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

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

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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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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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Malta is a sod of a place.

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

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

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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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