Quotes by Ernest Borgnine - Page 1

Everything I do has a moral to it.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Moral
Everything
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I'm what you call a Depression sailor.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Depression
Sailor
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To this day I clean better than most maids.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Clean
Maids
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It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Giving
Matter
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If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Alive
Rolling
Wayne
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You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Enough
Long
Pain
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I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Clown
Knows
Thinking
Know Think I Think
Urge
Whether
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My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Hotels
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Three quarters of producers don't even know who I am. The other quarter think I am dead.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Producers
Thinking
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You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
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Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Cameras
Mind
Steps
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I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Jobs
Dollars
Leaving
School
Truck
Vegetables
School Three High School
Immediately
Vegetable
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I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Men
Navy
Wonderful Friends
Years
Man Me Anything
Molded
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The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Grateful
Oscars
Personal Life
Stars
Life Me Grateful
Life Me Feel
Gotten
Messes
Oscar
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I just want to do more work. Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Active
Time Work Your
Camera
Every Time
Work Time Mind
Front
Step
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I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Heart
People
Play
Life Work Heart
Naturally
Chart
Histories
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I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Art
Men
Character
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The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Believe
Great Day
Navy
Officers
Good Great Believe
Bad Ones
Great Deal
Served
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Gary Cooper - the greatest listener in the world! And he used to answer in kind, which is wonderful because you don't see that anymore. People don't listen. They really don't.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Kind
People
World
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Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Cursing
Swearing
Thinking
Three
Wonderful
Pictures
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It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Smile
Mom
Accomplished
Funny Things
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The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Acting
Cameras
People
Time Me People
Camera
Carry
Trick
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I got a damn good mind to write a book about all the feelings that I have inside about all these things that happened in our life that we're making happen and letting it happen when it shouldn't be happening.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Book
Feelings
Writing
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Every time you play one old-time picture along with today's kind of work, and they throw in the computers and the guns and the this and the that and the God-almighty, it gets to be a hassle and you wonder who the hell's doing what!
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Computer
Gun
Kind
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We got together, and Bruce Willis was just a sweet animal, a sweetheart. I tell you, right down to the core he's just a real professional, a real gentleman, and I must say I'm so very happy for him that he's got a heck of a good film.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Animal
Real
Sweet
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I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Billing
Blame
Bombs
Don't Care
Long
Minutes
Names
Two
Me Long Care
Long Me Care
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I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Bunch
Caliber
Good People
Navy
Numbers
People
Altogether
Bright
Services
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There's an awful lot to be desired. I've gone to places where people say to me, "What's your technique?" Technique? What the hell technique is there to acting? We're acting because even with my voice I'm giving what I think is what I want to say.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Giving
People
Thinking
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Fathers and mothers are just people, which means they make mistakes. Don't hold that against them. Whatever flaws they may have, they created you in a moment of love, and are among the few who knew you when. When they're gone, there won't be anyone to take their place.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Father
Mistake
Mother
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I'm still watching all those old-timers really going along, and I'm enjoying it so much, not just looking at the pictures, but looking at the acting. Paul Muni. Beautiful character. Edward G. Robinson. Jimmy Cagney. All those old boys. You don't find those characters anymore.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Beautiful
Boys
Character
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Today's work, I don't know it just doesn't make sense, a lot of it. It's just guns and sex and more guns and more sex. You say to yourself, when the hell are you gonna get down to the nitty-gritty and do something good so people can be entertained? I mean if they call this entertainment.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Gun
Mean
People
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We've all got a lot of catching up to do. I'm still learning how to act, for god's sake. When I see these old-timers on the Turner Classic Movies, I still get ideas, you know. That's where you really learn acting. If you really see some of these old boys working it and you say to yourself, "My God, if I could really do that that would be wonderful."
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Acting
Boys
Classic
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I am very proud of having won Oscar because I know what I put into it. I know that the people who voted for me voted because they thought I was the best at that time. It's a wonderful thing to look up there and see that you achieved something that your peers gave to you and appreciation for your work. That's most of all what I think about when I see the Oscar.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Appreciation
Smile
People
Proud
Thinking
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I like to keep at my craft. I like to keep reading scripts, whether I'm in it or not because of the fact that what would I do in a certain case? How would this happen or how would that go? I like to keep working with my mind, so when I do perform I have something to perform with, and it's not just like trying on new clothes. You're trying on a suit, but you know where the heck the pants go.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Mind
Reading
Trying
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I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm going to be 65 years old, and I'm retiring and I'm quitting and that's it." Well, two weeks later they're saying to themselves, "What the hell am I gonna do?" And first thing you know they find themselves in a wheelchair or in a rocking chair going back and forth, back and forth, and that's the end of it. And suddenly you're dead.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Boys
Thinking
Waiting
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A lot of people forget that today. They come to the point where you walk on a set and the first thing you know you're looking at the sound man and you're saying to yourself, "How the hell can they get any sound when nobody is talking!" They get all mumbly. You can't make out what they're saying! And you're 6 feet away from them! Whereas in the old-time movies, you hear them, you understand every word they're saying, and you didn't have to put on your loudspeaker.
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Men
People
Today
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This is the kind of upbringing we had instead of sitting in front of a damn television set all day long and never answering to anybody else unless somebody spoke up from a television set. It's an altogether different way of living today that you wonder how it really affects the family? I know how it affects the family because I have my own son who has his children and also my daughter. It's one of those things. Everybody eats in their own way and off they go. You know? It's not family oriented anymore."
Ernest Borgnine / Film Actor
Daughter
Children
Long
Son
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