David Niven
David Niven
James David Graham Niven was a popular English actor and novelist. His many roles included Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death, Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days, and Sir Charles Lytton,in The Pink Panther. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Separate Tables...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 March 1910
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Realities of life for happy and unhappy people are basically the same.
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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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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.
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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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Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less.
You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
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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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Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
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Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.
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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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I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.
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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.
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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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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.