21 Clark Gable Quotes About Life (FILM ACTOR)

Top 10 Most Famous Clark Gable Quotes (BEST)

“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.”
Clark Gable

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. — It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you’ve fallen in **love** with.

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. — I want so badly to **believe** that there is **truth**, that **love** is real.

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. — 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.

I never laugh until I've had my coffee. — I never **laugh** until I’ve had my **coffee**.

“My biggest concern was that Hermann Goering, that SOB, offered any flier who shot down my plane a promotion, $5,000, and a furlough. I was always afraid that my crew would be a special target if the Krauts knew I was in it.”
Clark Gable

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.

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. — 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.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time. — I’m just a **lucky** slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right **time**.

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. — 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.

6 Clark Gable Quotes on Being a Firm Actor

“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

I worked like a son of a bitch to learn a few tricks and I fight like a steer to avoid getting stuck with parts I can't play. — I worked like a son of a bitch to **learn** a few tricks and I fight like a steer to avoid getting stuck with parts I can’t play.

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me. — I’m no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

“I discovered that Rhett was even harder to play than I had anticipated. With so much of Scarlett preceding his entrance, Rhett’s scenes were all climaxes.”
Clark Gable

I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

When the public doesn't want me any longer, I'll quit. — When the public doesn’t want me any longer, I’ll quit.

2 Clark Gable Quotes on Women

“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 Gable

“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

3 Clark Gable Quotes on Marilyn Monroe

“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