Quotes by David Niven

• I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .
• I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
• 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 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.
• Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
• Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
• 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.
• The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
• You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
• Malta is a sod of a place.