Quotes By Bobby Darin

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.

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

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

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

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

George Burns was the father I never had.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

My entire life has been a lie.

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.

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

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