Clark Gable Best Quotes & Sayings

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting. — Joyce DeWitt

When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set. — Carroll Baker

The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around. — Rosalind Russell

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

boy. Clark Gable, maybe. — Kristin Hannah

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

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." — Clark Gable

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time. — A. Scott Berg

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

Method actors are like hams. — Clark Gable

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn. — Clark Gable

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. — Billy West

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk. — Oriana Fallaci

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. — Clark Gable

I took a couple steps away from him and stopped in front of a framed colored poster of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable from the movie Gone with the Wind. I studied the pair, Gable with his mysterious mustache and Leigh in her red ball gown. I'd become a fan of the classic, partially because of my mother's suggestion that I looked a lot like a younger Vivien Leigh, with my dark wavy hair and sea green eyes. And as usual, I'd believed her for a little while. — J.C. Patrick

Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable. — Fay Wray

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

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

I watched It Happened One Night and looked at online pictures and really liked Clark Gable's mustache and hair and the tuxedo. I just really liked that look. — Evan Peters

Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable. — Rich Cohen

If you can't go to Hollywood
You don't have to cry;
Clark Gable is good looking
But so am I. — Iona Opie

I never laugh until I've had my coffee. — Clark Gable

I suspected the movies, considering her cheap crack about me being a ten-cent Clark Gable, which was ridiculous. He simpers, to begin with, and to end with no one can say I resemble a movie actor, and if they did it would be more apt to be Gary Cooper than Clark Gable. — Rex Stout

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

It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly. — Joan Blondell

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!" — Mickey Rooney

I was very young when I saw 'Gone With the Wind,' but I fell in love with Clark Gable. And when I got to work with him, I couldn't believe it. I still had a crush on him. He was quite an old man by then; he must have seen that I was head over heels, even though I was married. — Carroll Baker

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

I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in bed in Gone With The Wind, but you saw that shit eating grin on her face the next morning and you knew damned well she'd gotten properly laid. — Joan Crawford

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. — Clark Gable