BOBBY DARIN

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

My whole life has been a lie.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.

The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

I dazzle you with that footwork.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

I don't want to be able to see the audience.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

George Burns was the father I never had.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.