Quotes from Don Johnson


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


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.


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


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


I am stable when my private life is a success.


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


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.


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


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


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.


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


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.


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.


Every bowling center should have a house pro.