Errol Flynn Quotes
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It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care
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I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some
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The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
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I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.
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You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.
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If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living
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There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.
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I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.
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Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer
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I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.
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I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
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By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.
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The rest of my life will be devoted to women and litigation
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I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.
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I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
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It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick
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My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.
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I like the Whisky old an the women young
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I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
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I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
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I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense
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I want faith; but I am faithless
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I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
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It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.