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
making-love duration hammocks
Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.
beautiful men hair
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.
two clothes faces
I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
actors roles retiring
Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.
truth reality men
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.
writing school years
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.
war humanity done
Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
malta sod
Malta is a sod of a place.
one-day age want
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.
life man stripping
The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
basically happy life people realities unhappy
Realities of life for happy and unhappy people are basically the same.
dream wall dirty
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.
winning people competition
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.