Quotes By Bobby Darin

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

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 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.

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

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?

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

George Burns was the father I never had.

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

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.

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

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

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?

My whole life has been a lie.

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

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

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

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.

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!

My entire life has been a 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.