Quotes from David Niven

Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.

Dreams don't have an expiration date.

You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.

There are wonderful people out there but also wonderful people right here.

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Much in life is simply a matter of perspective. It's not inherently good or bad, a success or failure; it's how we choose to look at things that makes the difference.

Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance our lives

From David Niven's autobiography, Bring on the Empty Horses. Director Mike Curtiz to David Niven & Errol Flynn: "You lousy bums, you and your stinking language, you think I know fuck nothing, well let me tell you— I know FUCK ALL!

Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.

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

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

Spending your time imagining what would have been if you could have changed some little thing, some little decision in your life, is counterproductive and leaves you unhappy. Think about how you can improve for the future, but don't waste your present thinking about how you could have changed the past

When you are a senior boy in an English Public School, you perhaps reach the pinnacle of your self-importance.

There is no panacea for this kind of loss. Just know that every day it gets the tiniest bit better-- suddenly one day you can put it in a different perspective.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

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.

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?

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

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.

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

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.