Clark Gable Quotes

I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.

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.

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.

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.

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

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano

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.

Method actors are like hams.

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.

Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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.

I never laugh until I've had my coffee.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

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

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.