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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.

Clark Gable

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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Explanation God Myself Notice Power Woman
I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
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Hope Myself Role
I’m no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
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Actor Myself People See
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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Afraid Death Live Man Reason Time
They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.
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Construction Myself Ordinary See Work
When the public doesn’t want me any longer, I’ll quit.
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Myself Public Quit
When you smile it’s like the sun coming up.
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Smile Sun Yourself
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.
CLARK GABLE

Discussion Feeling Goodness Hurt Quality Way Woman
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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Attraction Glamour Myself Preference Woman
Clark Gable was the only real he-man I’ve ever known, of all the actors I’ve met.
CLARK GABLE

Actor Man Myself Reality
I 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 GABLE

Goodness Hate Myself Time
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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Interest Meaning Myself Patriot War Worth
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.
CLARK GABLE

Choice Confidence Dance Death Himself Hope Man
If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
CLARK GABLE

Actor Children Grave Myself
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.
CLARK GABLE

Confidence Himself Hope Man Mom Wife
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.
CLARK GABLE

Glamour Intrigue Make Up Myself Repair Woman
I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.
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Coffee Laughter Myself
Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they’ve seen of me on the screen.
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Build Man Myself Problem See
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 only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great – and they know I know it.
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Greatness Life Myself Reason See
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 GABLE

Ideas Myself News Paper White
I don’t want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I’m dead.
CLARK GABLE

Death Myself Stranger
I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.
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Coffee Interest Myself Quote
Method actors are like hams.
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Actor Method One Liner
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.
CLARK GABLE

Different Herself Kind Man Proud Strange Unique
When it’s over it’s over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.
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End Kiss Question Tears
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you’ve fallen in love with.
CLARK GABLE

Fall Girl Love Woman Yourself

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 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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