Clark Gable Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I never laugh until I've had my coffee.”
-- Clark GableSource : "Fictional character: Babe Stewart". "No Man of Her Own", www.imdb.com. 1932.
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“It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.”
-- Clark GableSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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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.”
-- Clark GableSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real”
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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.”
-- Clark GableSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.”
-- Clark GableSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.”
-- Clark GableSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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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“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. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.”
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“I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.”
-- Clark GableSource : "The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds". Book by James Robert Parish, p. 67, 2004.
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“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 GableSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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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“They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano”
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“When the public doesn't want me any longer, I'll quit.”
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“I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.”
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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.”
-- Clark GableSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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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“Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: I love you! Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.”
-- Clark GableSource : "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.
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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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“Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.”
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“Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. . . . All we've got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance." "I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory."”
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“Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.”
-- Clark Gable
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