52 Quotes by 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’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.

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.

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.

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

Thomas Ward found, we are twice as creative when the first impulse doesn’t work.

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