Top 100 Gable Quotes
#1. I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
Leslie Caron
#2. 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
#3. If you can't go to Hollywood
You don't have to cry;
Clark Gable is good looking
But so am I.
Iona Opie
#5. 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
#6. In 1938 ... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.
Laura Hillenbrand
#8. Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.
Clark Gable
#9. In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
Frank Capra
#10. Does it count for anything that I just told you I love you?" Gable asked.
I considered this briefly before deciding that it didn't. "Not really. Not when I know you don't mean it.
Gabrielle Zevin
#11. The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
Don Ameche
#12. I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
Oriana Fallaci
#14. Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"
Mickey Rooney
#15. I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
Gene Tierney
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.
Jean Dujardin
#19. 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
#20. I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
Gary Cooper
#21. When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.
Carroll Baker
#22. And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.
Eli Wallach
#23. I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.
Robert Preston
#24. 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
#25. I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
Robert Stack
#26. 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
#27. A wet cigarette butt clung to my cheek like a mashed cockroach. I could smell whiskey and beer in my clothes and Gable's blood on my knuckles and I swore I could taste whiskey surging out of my stomach into my throat, like an old friend who has come back in a time of need.
James Lee Burke
#28. Anne was kneeling at the west gable window watching the sunset sky that was like a great flower with petals of crocus and a heart of fiery yellow.
L.M. Montgomery
#29. John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.
Eve Golden
#30. When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
Marilyn Monroe
#31. I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange--not if I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable and painting the house-front with Hindley's blood.
Emily Bronte
#32. 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
#33. It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.
L.M. Montgomery
#34. If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
Vin Diesel
#35. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
Billy West
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
Jackie Cooper
#39. I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.
Anna Nicole Smith
#40. The Forest that had been about her all her life, certain as a mountain, was made ashes. The high gable that had stood for two hundred years fallen in ruin. Throvenland was torn apart like smoke on the wind. Nowhere would be safe, ever again.
Joe Abercrombie
#41. Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.
Elizabeth Taylor
#42. How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy.
Lauren Bacall
#43. I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
Clark Gable
#44. I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
Clark Gable
#45. 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.
Clark Gable
#46. When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.
Dan Gable
#47. My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable
#48. I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.
Dan Gable
#50. I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real
Clark Gable
#51. I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
Dan Gable
#52. If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
Clark Gable
#53. I've fallen in love with you and it pisses me off.
Michelle Gable
#54. Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
Dan Gable
#55. History mattered. But it could not guarantee what might happen next.
Michelle Gable
#56. 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
#57. 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."
Clark Gable
#58. 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.
Clark Gable
#60. My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.
Dan Gable
#61. Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.
Dan Gable
#62. You can't ever work too much because there's no such thing as being in too good condition. You can't ever lift too many weights because you can't ever get too strong. You can't ever wrestle too much because you can always do better.
Dan Gable
#63. Talent is everywhere, winning attitude is not.
Dan Gable
#64. Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
Dan Gable
#65. Great wrestlers make other wrestlers great
Dan Gable
#66. 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 Gable
#67. Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.
Dan Gable
#68. I'm a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.
Dan Gable
#69. Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.
Clark Gable
#70. 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
#71. When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.
Clark Gable
#72. 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
#73. I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
Dan Gable
#75. We believed Paris was the start of us. It's the kind of city that makes you think of beginnings, or even juicy middles. Paris is a book to savor, in whole or in part, at any time and in any season. At age ninety or at thirty-four, you can open any chapter and read from there.
Michelle Gable
#76. This is life, ephemeral, transient. Just because it's gone doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Michelle Gable
#77. There was a pact, unspoken but a pact all the same. You couldn't keep punishing someone for the same crime no matter how badly you wanted to. Fish or cut bait. April was on the pier, whether she was coming or going she did not yet know.
Michelle Gable
#78. Breathe in, take what life hands you; hold it, accept it; breathe out, let it go.
Susan Gable
#79. I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
Dan Gable
#80. There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.
Dan Gable
#81. I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.
Dan Gable
#82. Yes. It was awful. What sucks even more is that it happened at 'World Famous San Diego Zoo,' that whore of a tourist attraction that insists on forty-seven billboards on every highway and nonstop advertising loops on radio and television.
Michelle Gable
#83. If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
Dan Gable
#84. We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
Dan Gable
#86. I never laugh until I've had my coffee.
Clark Gable
#88. I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
Dan Gable
#89. When you smile it's like the sun coming up.
Clark Gable
#90. The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.
Dan Gable
#91. I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
Dan Gable
#92. Determination is the strength needed to succeed.
Dan Gable
#93. 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.
Clark Gable
#94. I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.
Clark Gable
#95. More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
Dan Gable
#96. Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won't get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it's still there.
Dan Gable
#97. Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable
#98. They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano
Clark Gable
#99. I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.
Clark Gable
#100. The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
Dan Gable
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