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 a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.
If I wasn't an actor I'd be unemployable, or at best the secretary to a golf club somewhere. Nine holes at that, and blue in the face with port.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
Malta is a sod of a place.
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
For all my longer works (i.e the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
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 "uncle," as opposed to a cousin. However, there was no blood link.
Father, with Primula Rollo, of David Niven Jr. and Jamie Niven; and the father, with Hjordis, of two adopted daughters, Kristina (adopted 1960) and Fiona (adopted 1962).
Was originally meant to play the lead role of Charlie Allnut in The African Queen (1951).
Became friends with 'Clark Gable (I)' during the 1930s. While Gable was serving in England during World War II, Gable used to stay over at the Niven's cottage and spend quality time with Niven's wife and children. When, a few years later, Niven's wife died tragically, Gable did his best to comfort Niven. Niven said "Clark was drawing on his own awful experience (his wife Carole Lombard 's tragic death) to steer me through mine.
After he left the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst he was asked to write down his three preferred regiments, he wrote 'anything but the HLI' (Highland Light Infantry) he was inevitably commissioned into the HLI, later to transferred to the Rifle Brigade.
Was on stage at the 1974's Oscars when a naked man ran behind him.
His father was Lieutenant William Niven, who died at Gallipoli on 21st August 1915, aged 25, while serving with the Berkshire Yeomanry
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He knew his wife Primula only 17 days before he married her and he knew his second wife only 10 days before marrying her
He was married with Primula Rollo since the 16 September 1940 to the 21 May 1946 ( Date of her death). They had 2 children.
His nickname was ''Niv''
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