Don Johnson Quotes & Sayings

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures. — Don Johnson

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility. — Don Johnson

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars. — Don Johnson

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar. — Don Johnson

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort. — Don Johnson

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit. — Don Johnson

It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases. — Don Johnson

I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet. — Don Johnson

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to. — Don Johnson

Every bowling center should have a house pro. — Don Johnson

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is. — Don Johnson

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive. — Don Johnson

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous. — Don Johnson

I studied a lot of Foghorn Leghorn. — Don Johnson

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks. — Don Johnson

I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in. — Don Johnson

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet. — Don Johnson

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons. — Don Johnson

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult. — Don Johnson

Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two. — Don Johnson

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you. — Don Johnson

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor. — Don Johnson

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day. — Don Johnson

If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life. — Don Johnson

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along. — Don Johnson

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do. — Don Johnson

The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool. — Don Johnson

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery. — Don Johnson

Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had. — Don Johnson

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it. — Don Johnson

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically. — Don Johnson

I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught. — Don Johnson

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it. — Don Johnson

I am stable when my private life is a success. — Don Johnson

You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is. — Don Johnson

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being. — Don Johnson

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side. — Don Johnson

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you! — Don Johnson

I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school. — Don Johnson

In the famous Darley and Batson Good Samaritan study in the early 1970s, a large number of seminary students were subjected to a time constraint and told to walk past a person who was writhing in pain and needed help. The victim was actually a paid actor who had been strategically positioned to participate in the experiment. They found that students' willingness to stop and help the victim strongly correlated to the perceived urgency of the time constraint - low hurry, 63 percent stopped to help; medium hurry, 45 percent stopped; and in the high-hurry scenario only 10 percent offered any form of assistance at all. Only an average of 40 percent of seminary students stopped to help. — Don Johnson

The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere. — Don Johnson

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life. — Don Johnson