Errol Flynn Quotations

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

I like my whisky old and my women young.

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Luke Flynn will play his grandfather Errol in

Guys, I don't sing and I don't dance. I don't know how I can entertain you.

My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

It's not what they say about you, it's what they whisper

Anyone who dies with more than $1.15 to his name is a jerk.

If there's anyone listening to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if you are

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.

I want faith; but I am faithless

Has every oyster a different taste?

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

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.

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

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

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

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.

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

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.

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.

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

I like the Whisky old an the women young

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

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.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are.

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.

The rest of my life will be devoted to women and litigation

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.