Bobby Darin famous quotes

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

#Family #Guy #Different

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

#Parent #Married #Sandy

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

#Music

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

#Memories #Moonbeams

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

#Funny #Comedian #Mind

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

#Shoes #Ashes #Boots

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

#Important #World #Masters

George Burns was the father I never had
-- Bobby Darin

#Father

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

#Space #Anxiety #Flying

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

#Want #Legends #Made

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

#Giving Up #Years #Two

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

#Thinking #Knowing #Conceit

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

#Mean #Awards #Beans

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

#Dream #Insanity #Lovers

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

#Leadership #Trying

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

#Philosophy #Sight #Worry

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

#Sex #Important #Elements

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

#Mind Your Own Business #Mind #Own Business

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

#Shoes #Dancing #Baths

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

#Mean #Son #Careers

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

#Running #Party #Hymns

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?
-- Bobby Darin

#Party #Doors #Dating

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

#Drama #Light #Want

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

#Moving #Dancer #Singers

I don't want to be able to see the audience
-- Bobby Darin

#Want #Able #Audience

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

#Bars #Bills #Firsts

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

#Lying #Heart #Thinking

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?
-- Bobby Darin

#Care #Mama #Quitting

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

#Practice #Singing #No Excuses

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

#Thinking #Comedian #Flip

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

#Comedian #Comic #Distinction

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

#Tv Shows #Care #Tvs

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

#Knives #Wells #Sooner Or Later

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

#Rain #People #Fans

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

#Money #Business #Artist

My entire life has been a lie.
-- Bobby Darin

#Lying

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

#Goal #Remembered #Performers

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

#Who I Am #People #Done

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

#Taken #Wife #Car

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

#Men #Age #Sides

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

#Jumping #Bridges #Way

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

#Fall #Shoes #Half

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

#Turtles #House #Gone

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

#Sexy #Self #Conscious

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

#Guy #Show Me #Shows

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

#Love #Insecurity #Cover Ups