David Niven

“The only sure way to be a bore is to tell everything.”

“I've been lucky. I've had a long and varied life and I don't think I've ever been bored.”

“Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.”

“Can you imagine being wonderfully overpaid for dressing up and playing games?”

“I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.”

“You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who know you. The rest is public relations.”

“Actors don't retire. They just get offered fewer parts.”

“Isn't it fascinating to think that this is probably the only business in the world in which you can make a career, a long career, without having the slightest bit of talent?”

“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”

“Ask an actor to go and work for nothing, and he'll say, 'Is it a good part?'”

“Any actor who tells you that he's not an exhibitionist is a liar.”

“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”

“I'm a good listener. I think it's the one thing I do well.”

“It really is a fact that all biographies are lies.”

“I made a list of things I have to do today. The first was 'Wake up'. I have done that. So I'm already a success.”