When the public doesn’t want me any longer, I’ll quit.
CLARK GABLEI 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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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.
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If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
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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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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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Method actors are like hams.
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It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you’ve fallen in love with.
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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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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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Clark Gable was the only real he-man I’ve ever known, of all the actors I’ve met.
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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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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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They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.
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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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I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
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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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