David Niven
David Niven
James David Graham Niven was a popular English actor and novelist. His many roles included Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death, Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days, and Sir Charles Lytton,in The Pink Panther. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Separate Tables...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 March 1910
drinking champagne
But Champagne is not drinking.
happiness people cost
If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.
men thinking laughing
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?
alcohol companionship champagne
Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.
frustrated age world
Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.
people wonderful
There are wonderful people out there but also wonderful people right here.
taken superstitions fields
I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.
inspirational dream
Dreams don't have an expiration date.
running life-and-love long
A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.
work-out circus never-quit
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
contentment too-much tvs
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.
character space decision
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.
mistake funny-marriage tomorrow
Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
dream wall dirty
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.