Don Johnson Quotes

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to.

You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.

It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases.

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.

Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.

I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.

In the famous Darley and Batson Good Samaritan study in the early 1970s, a large number of seminary students were subjected to a time constraint and told to walk past a person who was writhing in pain and needed help. The victim was actually a paid actor who had been strategically positioned to participate in the experiment. They found that students' willingness to stop and help the victim strongly correlated to the perceived urgency of the time constraint - low hurry, 63 percent stopped to help; medium hurry, 45 percent stopped; and in the high-hurry scenario only 10 percent offered any form of assistance at all. Only an average of 40 percent of seminary students stopped to help.

Every bowling center should have a house pro.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in.

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.