Bobby Darin Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Bobby Darin:
If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.
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Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.
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It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
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When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.
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I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.
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There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
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I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you.
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Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
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I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
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Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
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Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
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I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
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I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
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I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.
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The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.
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My entire life has been a lie.
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The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.
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I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25.
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It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
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Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
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My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
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A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
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Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.
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George Burns was the father I never had.
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You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.
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Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.
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I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.
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I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.
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Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
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I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.
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I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.
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I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.
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Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.
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I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.
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I dazzle you with that footwork.
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I don't want to be able to see the audience.
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Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
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My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
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This marriage is no one's business but our own.
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It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.
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I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.
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I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.
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A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
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Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
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My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.
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My whole life has been a lie.
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