who said live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse
Report Abuse. The phrase is 'Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse'. It was a line spoken by actor John Derek in the 1949 film 'Knock on Any Door'. The screenplay was by John Monks Jr and it was based on the 1947 critically acclaimed first novel of the same name by African-American writer Willard Motley (1909-1965).