Top 40 Bobby Darin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.”

— Bobby Darin

2. “It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.”

— Bobby Darin

3. “My entire life has been a lie.”

— Bobby Darin

4. “If you don’t try, if you don’t do something for yourself, you won’t get anywhere.”

— Bobby Darin

5. “Memories are like moonbeams, we do with them what we will.”

— Bobby Darin

6. “I’ve got a dream lover, so I don’t have to dream alone.”

— Bobby Darin

7. “A-well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath, I went and put my dancing shoes on.”

— Bobby Darin

8. “There is nothing wrong with being afraid – but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.”

— Bobby Darin

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

— Bobby Darin

10. “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.”

— Bobby Darin

11. “I’ve done a lot of things and I’ve been a lot of people, but now I’ve come to realize who I am.”

— Bobby Darin

12. “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.”

— Bobby Darin

13. “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!”

— Bobby Darin

14. “I wrapped a towel around me and I opened the door, and then I splish, splash, I jumped back in the bath. Well, how was I to know there was a party going on?”

— Bobby Darin

15. “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.”

— Bobby Darin

16. “Conceit is thinking you’re great; egotism is knowing it.”

— Bobby Darin

17. “Maybe I should quit the business. There’s no one left for me to love. Mama’s dead. Mr. Burns couldn’t care less about me. What’s left?”

— Bobby Darin

18. “I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.”

— Bobby Darin

19. “You’re either sexy or you’re not. I’m very self-conscious about my physiognomy.”

— Bobby Darin

20. “I don’t care if I never do another TV show in my life.”

— Bobby Darin

21. “This marriage is no one’s business but our own.”

— Bobby Darin

22. “A comedian’s body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.”

— Bobby Darin

23. “I’m a singer who moves like a dancer.”

— Bobby Darin

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

— Bobby Darin

25. “George Burns was the father I never had.”

— Bobby Darin

26. “I don’t know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can’t do that. I can only say, I owe you.”

— Bobby Darin

27. “My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.”

— Bobby Darin

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

— Bobby Darin

29. “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.”

— Bobby Darin

30. “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.”

— Bobby Darin

31. “I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.”

— Bobby Darin

32. “Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.”

— Bobby Darin

33. “Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.”

— Bobby Darin

34. “I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn’t do another film for two to three years, and I don’t blame it on anybody but myself.”

— Bobby Darin

35. “I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn’t mean beans.”

— Bobby Darin

36. “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.”

— Bobby Darin

37. “A group or an artist shouldn’t get his money until his boss gets his.”

— Bobby Darin

38. “I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.”

— Bobby Darin

39. “I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I’d like to be a legend by the time I’m 25.”

— Bobby Darin

40. “The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.”

— Bobby Darin

41. “Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.”

— Bobby Darin

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

— Bobby Darin

43. “When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it’s very exciting.”

— Bobby Darin

44. “It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.”

— Bobby Darin

45. “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?”

— Bobby Darin

46. “I don’t want to be able to see the audience.”

— Bobby Darin