David Niven
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"James David Graham Niven" was an English actor and novelist who was popular in Europe and in the United States. He may be best known for his roles as Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death (film)/A Matter of Life and Death, as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)/Around the World in 80 Days and as Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther (1963 film)/The Pink Panther. He was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Separate Tables (film)/Separate Tables (1958).

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I didn't say it.

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

That's the ugliest woman I've ever seen.

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

Realities of life for happy and unhappy people are basically the same.

I meant the other one.