Bobby Darin Quotes

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

"My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Goal, Being)

"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Family, First)

"My entire life has been a lie."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Life, Lie)

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

"My whole life has been a lie."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Life, Lie)

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Age, Family, Actor, Man, Old)

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Time, Content, Flying, Space)

"It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how."
- Bobby Darin

"It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Excuses, Practice, Singing)

"Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Father, Symbol, Word)

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Acting, Blame, Film, Result, Singing, Years)

"Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: World)

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Business, Life)

"Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Son, Career, Hell, Will)

"The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Office, Party, Right)

"The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Business, Sex)

"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?"
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Car, Wife, Right, Want)

"This marriage is no one's business but our own."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Business, Marriage)

"When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: First)

"You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Self)

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: People, Fans, 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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Time, Day, Future, Philosophy, Sight, Tomorrow, Worry)

"I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Awards)

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: People, Now)

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Love)

"A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Funny, Being, Body, Mind)

"A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Money, Boss, Artist)

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Love, God, Truth, Fool, Insecurity)

"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!"
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Death, Heart, May, Nothing, Order, Wrong)

"Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Hope, Will)

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Houses, Now)

"I dazzle you with that footwork."
- Bobby Darin

"I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Life, Care)

"I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian."
- Bobby Darin

"I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Legal, Now, Parents)

"I'm a singer who moves like a dancer."
- Bobby Darin

"George Burns was the father I never had."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Father)

"I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Comedy, Drama, Light, Want)

"I don't want to be able to see the audience."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Want)

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Actor, Self, Want)

"I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Comedians)

"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."
- Bobby Darin

"I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking."
- Bobby Darin

"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."
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Time, Want)