Lee Marvin Quotes

#1. Not since Attila the Hun swept across Europe leaving 500 years of total blackness has there been a man like Lee Marvin.

Joshua Logan

#2. Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

Joe Carnahan

#3. When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat.

Manolo Blahnik

#4. My first western was 'Death Hunt' with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was based on a true story about a guy that eluded the Mounties in Canada. We were in Canada for six weeks riding horses.

William Sanderson

#5. I was always a fan of the great old spaghetti Westerns, the Sergio Leone films. But the one that always sticks with me, that I just thought was brilliant and perfect is "Cat Ballou." Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou."

Johnny Depp

#6. Remember the scene in Cat Ballou where a very drunk Lee Marvin goes from unconscious to ranting to triumphant to roaring to weeping defeat, and then finally passes out? One of the men watching him says, with real awe, "I never seen a man get through a day so fast." Don't let this be you.

Anne Lamott

#7. I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.

Carl Weathers

#8. I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

Lee Marvin

#9. A true lady is known by her conduct under trying circumstances.

Marissa Doyle

#10. Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

Lee Marvin

#11. Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

Lee Marvin

#12. I do not need a reason to be angry with God.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

Bruce Catton

#14. Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life's battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.

Edwin Markham

#15. You can't just change me and then leave. You can't.

John Green

#16. I only make movies to finance my fishing.

Lee Marvin

#17. He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.

Anthony Trollope

#18. If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

Lee Marvin

#19. One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

Lee Marvin

#20. If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

Lee Marvin

#21. As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

Lee Marvin

#22. I'm going to ask you to do something that may feel even more painful: when you get close to becoming engaged, put any public announcement on delay for a few weeks and spend several sessions talking through all these issues again with someone else present.

Gary L. Thomas

#23. Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

Lee Marvin

#24. And once by God, I was a Marine!

Lee Marvin

#25. Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Anthony Trollope

#26. I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.

Lee Marvin

#27. As for [Amiri] Baraka, he and I have disagreements. I mean, he becomes a demagogue when there's an audience. He's a nice guy in private. I mean I like the guy; he's a terrific writer. I've published two of his books. Baraka is one of these fundamentalists who is prone to idol worship.

Ishmael Reed