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 GABLEThey see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.
More Clark Gable Quotes
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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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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 never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.
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When it’s over it’s over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.
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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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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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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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I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
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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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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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When you smile it’s like the sun coming up.
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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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When the public doesn’t want me any longer, I’ll quit.
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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 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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