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.
CLARK GABLEI 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.
More Clark Gable Quotes
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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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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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I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
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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 laugh until I’ve had my coffee.
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If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
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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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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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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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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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Clark Gable was the only real he-man I’ve ever known, of all the actors I’ve met.
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Method actors are like hams.
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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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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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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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