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Bobby Darin
American
Musician
About the author
I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Love
#Business
#Care
If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#Being
#Goal
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#Family
#First
My entire life has been a lie.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
My whole life has been a lie.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Family
#Man
#Old
#Age
#Actor
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,
American
Musician
#Time
#Content
#Space
#Flying
It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Practice
#Singing
#Excuses
Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#Word
#Father
#Symbol
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,
American
Musician
#Acting
#Film
#Years
#Result
#Singing
#Blame
Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Life
#Business
Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#Will
#Career
#Hell
#Son
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,
American
Musician
#Right
#Office
#Party
The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Right
#Wife
#Car
This marriage is no one's business but our own.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#Business
#Marriage
When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#First
You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Fans
#People
#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,
American
Musician
#Time
#Day
#Future
#Worry
#Sight
#Philosophy
#Tomorrow
I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Now
#People
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,
American
Musician
#Love
A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#Being
#Mind
#Body
#Funny
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Nothing
#Death
#Heart
#May
#Wrong
#Order
Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Now
#Houses
I dazzle you with that footwork.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#Life
#Care
I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#Now
#Parents
#Legal
I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
George Burns was the father I never had.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#Father
I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#Want
#Light
#Comedy
#Drama
I don't want to be able to see the audience.
Bobby Darin,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Self
#Actor
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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Time