Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Errol Flynn

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian actor Errol Flynn.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian-American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland, and reputation for his womanising and hedonistic personal life. His most notable roles include the eponymous hero in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), which was later named by the American Film Institute as the 18th greatest hero in American film history, the lead role in Captain Blood (1935), Major Geoffrey Vickers in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and the hero in a number of Westerns such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and San Antonio (1945).

Australian - Actor | June 20, 1909 - October 14, 1959

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I like my whisky old and my women young.

Errol Flynn

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

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

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My father was never anti-anything in our house.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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I want faith; but I am faithless

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Has every oyster a different taste?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I like the Whisky old an the women young

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

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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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