John Derek Quotes

Live fast, die young.

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

For about two years, I was a little wild. I was out partying, having adventures.

I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.

I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

I want to live fast and die young.

I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

I follow my heart in almost every instance, and it gets me in trouble most of the time. But I don't care. I think that's the best way I can live.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.

If my character is over the top talking about partying and chicks and living the dream, then I'm going to go out and want to party more.

There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives.

I'll give up smoking when I die, and I'll settle down when I die. Until then, I'm gonna have a good time.

I love real women that don't have to be saints, who can be selfish and act out against their parents or like the wrong guy, because that's life. That's my life, at least.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.