Method actors are like hams.
CLARK GABLEMethod actors are like hams.
CLARK GABLEI’m no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
CLARK GABLEThey see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.
CLARK GABLEI bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
CLARK GABLEThe 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.
CLARK GABLEIf any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
CLARK GABLEWhen it’s over it’s over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.
CLARK GABLEThe only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great – and they know I know it.
CLARK GABLEI never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.
CLARK GABLEI thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.
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.
CLARK GABLEClark Gable was the only real he-man I’ve ever known, of all the actors I’ve met.
CLARK GABLEEvery 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 GABLEWhen you smile it’s like the sun coming up.
CLARK GABLEThis 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.
CLARK GABLEMarilyn 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.
CLARK GABLE