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Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
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 see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .
I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle... (more David Niven quotes)
He once asked Greta Garbo whilst under a picnic table (!), why she quit making movies. She answered, "Because I've been too many faces."
Contrary to a popular myth, he was not a cousin of actor Patrick Macnee. According to Macnee, in Sheridan Morley's 1985 biography "The Other Side of the Moon,", his elder brother Max and Patrick's mother were friends and Max was described as an "u... (more David Niven trivia)
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NIV: The Authorized Biography of David Niven by Graham Lord |
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