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Don Johnson
American
Actor
About the author
Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
Every bowling center should have a house pro.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Life
#Hollywood
I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Censorship
I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Want
#Famous
I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#God
#Artist
#Gifts
I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Play
#Hell
#Guitar
I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Life
I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Girls
I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Years
#Vice
#Business
I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Music
#Guitar
I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Play
#Poverty
#Actor
#Decision
I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#People
#Rumor
I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Idea
#School
I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#People
#Spirit
#Body
#Example
#Drugs
It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#People
#Day
#Joy
It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Actor
#Mission
If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Inspiring
If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Life
#Tomorrow
I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Successful
#Day
#Responsibility
I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Job
#Project
You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Time
#State
I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Being
#Actor
#Feelings
Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#London
My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Actor
#Favorite
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Nothing
#Famous
The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Artists
#Romantic
I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Sea
This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Being
#Living
My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Daughter
#Hell
#Sons
The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#End
#Being
#Business
I am stable when my private life is a success.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Life
#Success
I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Want
#People
#Will
#Nothing
#Failure
#Business
#Drugs
#Alcohol
#Insanity
Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.
Don Johnson,
American
Actor
#Being