Errol Flynn Quotes

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

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#2. I like my whisky old and my women young.

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#3. I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.

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

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#5. Has every oyster a different taste?

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

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

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

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#9. 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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#10. My father was never anti-anything in our house.

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

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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. The rest of my life will be devoted to women and litigation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#23. 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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#24. I want faith; but I am faithless

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#25. 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.

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

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. I like the Whisky old an the women young

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#33. I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

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

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

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

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

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