David Niven
British actor and novelist (1910–1983)
James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was a British actor, soldier, memoirist, and novelist. Niven was known as a handsome and debonair leading man in Classic Hollywood films. He received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Quotes
edit- Can you imagine being wonderfully over-paid for dressing up and playing games?
- From an interview; quoted in Frank S. Pepper, ed. The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century (1987), 'Acting', no. 19
- Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
- Quoted in Sheridan Morley, The Other Side of the Moon (1985), Ch. XIII: 1941–1942
- Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
- To Robert Wagner; quoted in The Other Side of the Moon (1985), Ch. XXV: 1964–1966
- Isn't it fascinating that probably the only laugh this man will ever get in his life is by stripping off his clothes and showing his shortcomings.
- On Robert Opel streaking the 46th Academy Awards; quoted in The Other Side of the Moon (1985), Ch. XXV: 1964–1966
