Errol Flynn QuotationsYou 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. They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living. I do what I like. I like my whiskey old and my women young. I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it. -- last words. I can't reconcile my gross habits with my net income. I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest. The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. If I have any genius it is a genius for living. I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day. Women won't let me stay single, and I won't let myself stay married. I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world. I've made six or seven good films - the others, not so good. My job is to defy the normal. Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. 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 father was never anti-anything in our house. Return from Errol Flynn Quotations to Errol Flynn Main Page
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