Quotes By Bobby Darin

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.

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

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

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.

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

I don't want to be able to see the audience.

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.

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.

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

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.

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

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?

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

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

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

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?

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.

I dazzle you with that footwork.

My whole life has been a lie.

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

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

The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.

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!

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

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.

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

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

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