--- title: "3 Robert Donat Quotes" description: "Friedrich Robert Donat was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is b..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b164/author-robert-donat-82563.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Robert Donat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b164/author-robert-donat-82563.jpg) # Robert Donat **3** quotes in **15** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Friedrich Robert Donat was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), for which h ## Quotes by Robert Donat > [A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-donat/a-life-that-is-planned-is-a-closed-life-my-friend-it-can-be-endured/) [Robert Donat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-donat/) [Decision](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/decision/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c5/robert-donat-82563_decision_a-life-that-is-planned-is-a-closed-life_1438980.png) > [. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-donat/a-pity-i-never-had-children-but-you-re-wrong-i-have-thousands-of-them/) [Robert Donat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-donat/) [Boys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b1/robert-donat-82563_boys_a-pity-i-never-had-children-but-you-re-w_2416236.png) > [I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-donat/i-never-had-any-real-security-in-my-life-until-i-found-the-false/) [Robert Donat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-donat/) [Cybersecurity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cybersecurity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4de/robert-donat-82563_cybersecurity_i-never-had-any-real-security-in-my-life_2593383.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-donat/#itemlist", "name": "Robert Donat Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. 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