Quotes by David Niven

David Niven

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.

School

Writing

Years

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

Purpose

Purpose Of Life

World

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.

Girl

Men

Wonder

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.

Dirty

Dream

Wall

I’ve taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields – looking for loopholes.

Fields

Superstitions

Taken

If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.

Cost

Happiness

People

Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

Laughing

Men

Thinking

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

Circus

Never Quit

Work Out

Malta is a sod of a place.

Malta

Sod

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.

Grateful

Meaningful

Roots

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Actors

Age

Alcohol

Army

Beautiful

Care

Champagne

Character

Choices

Circus

Clothes

Color

Companionship

Competition

Complaining

Contentment

Cost

Dirty

Doubt

Dream

Drinking

Duration

Empowering

Fields

Frustrated

Funny Marriage

Girl

Giving

Grateful

Hammocks

Happiness

Healing

Humanity

Inspirational

Jokes

Laughing

Leadership

Life And Love

Long

Making Love

Malta

Meaningful

Men

Mistake

Misunderstood

Movie

Never Quit

Numbers

One Day

People

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Quotes by David Niven

David Niven

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.

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.

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’ve taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields – looking for loopholes.

If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.

Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

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

Malta is a sod of a place.

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