Errol Flynn Quotes

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

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

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 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.

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 like my whisky old and my women young.

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

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

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

All I had to do was stick my face into this gruesome mess and bite off the young sheep's testicles. Dag a hogget. I had good teeth. I put my nose into this awful-smelling mess, my teeth solidly around the balls of the six-month-old sheep, and took a bite while I held him upside down. My nose was in fur and ordure. I bit and spat out the product into a pile of what they called prairie oysters. We have them in America too: delicious to eat, but not delicious to remove. They said this was the most sanitary way to de-ball a sheep. After I was done, I passed the sheep onto the next man, who put a little coal tar on the same spot for purposes of cleansing and closing up the wound.
The sheep never let out a bleat.

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

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Has every oyster a different taste?

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

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

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

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

I want faith; but I am faithless

if you're dealing with monkeys, you got to expect some wrenches.....

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

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.

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

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

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