David Niven movie quotes
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- From the movie: The Pink Panther
“- Simone Clouseau: If I'm not being too nosy your highness, I read somewhere there was some dispute over the ownership of the Pink Panther.
- Princess Dala: It belongs to me. It was a gift from my late father. I shall never surrender it.
- Sir Charles Lytton: Why should you?
- Princess Dala: When the present government seized power, they...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Pink Panther
“- Princess Dala: If I were my father, I'd have you tortured.
- Sir Charles Lytton: No. If you were your father, I doubt very much if I would have kissed you.” - From the movie: Around the World in 80 Days
“Crisis or not, nothing should interfere with tea!”
- From the movie: Around the World in 80 Days
“Steward, my Thursday midday meal has always been and will always be hot soup, fried sole, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, baked potatoes, suet pudding and treacle.”
- From the movie: Around the World in 80 Days
“- Saloon Hostess: Never be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life.
- Phileas Fogg: Madam, you don't understand. I'm looking for my man.
- Saloon Hostess: So am I.” - From the movie: Around the World in 80 Days
“An Englishman never jokes about a wager, sir.”
- From the movie: Around the World in 80 Days
“- Monsieur Gasse, Travel Agent: Monsieur! You are now addressing the second most celebrated balloonist in Europe.
- Phileas Fogg: And who is the first?
- Monsieur Gasse, Travel Agent: He is not available. He was, uh, buried last Tuesday.” - From the movie: Around the World in 80 Days
- From the movie: Around the World in 80 Days
- From the movie: A Matter of Life and Death
- Abraham Farlan: Your smile is not unattractive, sir. Did you use it to enamor this young American lady?
- Peter: I love her sir.
- Abraham Farlan: Answer the question.
- Peter: Would you repeat the question? It, erm, had "enamored" in it. - From the movie: A Matter of Life and Death
“- Abraham Farlan: You claim you love her.
- Peter: I do love her!
- Abraham Farlan: Can you prove it?
- Peter: Well give me time, sir. Fifty years will do.
- Abraham Farlan: But can you prove it?
- Peter: Well, can a starving man prove he's hungry except by eating?
- Abraham Farlan: Would you die for her?
- Peter: I would, but, er, I'd...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: A Matter of Life and Death
“- Doctor Frank Reeves: Sir, may I bring you up to date? We are living in the 20th century, not in the 18th.
- Abraham Farlan: May I bring you up to date, sir? We are not alive at all.” - La trovi in Money and Actors
“Can you imagine being wonderfully overpaid for dressing up and playing games?”
- La trovi in About Colleagues
“He's a very, very bad actor, but he absolutely loves doing it.”
- La trovi in About Colleagues
“He was no soft touch… you had to prove yourself. Above all, you had to demonstrate conclusively to his satisfaction that you were no phony.”
- La trovi in About Colleagues
“A great lady. It’s quite an achievement to spend that long in Hollywood and not become a Hollywood product.”
- La trovi in Relationships in Hollywood
“He is one of the few people in the world I would instinctively think of if I needed help of any sort.”
- La trovi in Actors' Love Affairs
- La trovi in Motivational Quotes
“Don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.”
- La trovi in Body Obsession
“I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
- La trovi in Motivational Quotes
“I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.”
- La trovi in Body Obsession
“To be an actor it is essential to be an egomaniac; otherwise it just doens't work.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“Garbo had an icy look in her eyes when anyone sought to impose upon her, as, according to studio gossip, Groucho Marx discovered one day. He saw a well-known figure approaching in slacks and floppy hat, waylaid her, bent down in his famous crouch and peeked up under the brim. Two prisms of pure Baltic blue stared down at him, and he backed away...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Curse of the Pink Panther
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