Bobby Darin Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

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.

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

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

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.

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.

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?

Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

George Burns was the father I never had

I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.

I don't want to be able to see the audience

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.

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

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting

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?

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

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.

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.

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

The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.

I wrapped a towel around me and I opened the door, and then I splish, splash, I jumped back in the bath. Well, how was I to know there was a party going on?

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.

A-well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath, I went and put my dancing shoes on.

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!

I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.

My entire life has been a lie.

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

Memories are like moonbeams, we do with them what we will.

So let us build them shelves where They might fight among themselves and leave the people be who want to sing

No, but perhaps I will. And do have a happy birthday.

Well, that doesn't tell us much, does it? ... I guess if he's going to be your friend -- your adult friend -- I'll have to get to know him a little.

You better start breaking in your own, don't you think?

Tempus fugit means time flies, ... Mom says it a lot. She also says time and tide wait for no man and time heals all wounds.

Are there many of those, do you think?

A library card, ... An adult library card.

Your mother is a woman of many sayings, is she?

Skipping -- at least without a rope -- is a little on the baby side, Carol, ... But you can if you want. We don't mind, do we, S-J?

I'm eleven, ... Eleven today. I can read it. I won't be able to understand it all, but if it's a good story, I'll like it.

He's old, ... But he had an interesting face. My mom didn't like him on sight because he had some of his stuff in shopping bags.