Top 42 Quotes & Sayings by Don Johnson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Don Johnson.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Don Johnson

Donnie Wayne Johnson is an American actor, producer, director, singer and songwriter. He played the role of James "Sonny" Crockett, in the 1980s television series Miami Vice, winning a Golden Globe for his work in the role. He also played the protagonist, Nash Bridges, in the 1990s series Nash Bridges.

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.
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.
Every bowling center should have a house pro. — © Don Johnson
Every bowling center should have a house pro.
Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.
I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.
I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.
If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.
The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
I am stable when my private life is a success.
I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar. — © Don Johnson
I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.
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.
My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.
London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.
Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.
My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.
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.
I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.
Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.
The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.
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.
I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.
I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.
I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.
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.
I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.
I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility. — © Don Johnson
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.
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
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.
I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.
I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.
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.
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!
You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.
Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.
I studied a lot of Foghorn Leghorn. — © Don Johnson
I studied a lot of Foghorn Leghorn.
The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.
Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
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