Quotes by Clark Gable - Page 1

Method actors are like hams.
Clark Gable / Film Actor
Actors
Ham
Method
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Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Clark Gable / Film Actor
Movie
Badass
Hollywood Films
Wind
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I never laugh until I've had my coffee.
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Coffee
Laughing
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When you smile it's like the sun coming up.
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I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
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When the public doesn't want me any longer, I'll quit.
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Quitting
Want
Want Me
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If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
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Actors
Children
Graves
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When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.
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Farewell
Kissing
Tears
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I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
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Actors
Has Beens
People
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It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
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Girl
Inspirational
Love
Dating
Fallen
Dividend
Extra
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I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.
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Coffee
Interesting
May
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Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.
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Men
Actors
Real
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I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.
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Lucky
Ohio
Right Place
Right Time
Time Place Right
Slob
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They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.
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Construction Workers
Guy
Piano
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I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.
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Stranger
Want
Wrinkles
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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
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Life
Knows
Reason
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Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
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Dames
Fishing
Hell
No Time
Supposed
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Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.
Clark Gable / Film Actor
Film
Heart
Misfits
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Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.
Clark Gable / Film Actor
Have Faith
Keys
Lessons
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Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.
Clark Gable / Film Actor
Men
Ideas
Kind
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Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.
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Death
Men
Dying
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Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.
Clark Gable / Film Actor
Exciting
Magnificent
Strange
Marilyn
Talks
Uses
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I am intrigued by glamorous women ... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.
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Makeup
Needs
Vain
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This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.
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Broadway
Knows
Stage Actors
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I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.
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Hate
Liars
Lying
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.
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Men
Odds
Song
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.
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Men
Mother
Self Esteem
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Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."
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War
Believe
Mean
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Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man.
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Men
Different
Doe
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Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour.
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Age
Hair
Weight
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I don't discuss women at all with anyone. There are good qualities in all women. Some may be lacking in some of these qualities and should have them. I'm liable to say so and hurt their feelings, and it wouldn't be meant that way at all.
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Quality
Feelings
Hurt
Should Have
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It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.
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Eight
Stars
Wind
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I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.
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Ideas
News
White
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Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. . . . All we've got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance." "I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory."
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Dream
War
Winning
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Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaux. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: "I love you!" Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me, Captain Butler, as long as you live.
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Love
Flirting
Long
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.
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Fighting
Mother
Song
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