Top 60 Quotes About Clark Gable: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Clark Gable

#1. 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

#2. I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

Leslie Caron

#3. 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

#4. Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.

Elizabeth Taylor

#5. I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.

Anna Nicole Smith

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

Billy West

#9. If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'

Vin Diesel

#10. 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

#11. When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

Marilyn Monroe

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

Gary Cooper

#17. When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.

Carroll Baker

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

Iona Opie

#19. Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

Esther Williams

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Clark Gable

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

Oriana Fallaci

#24. boy. Clark Gable, maybe.

Kristin Hannah

#25. Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

Mickey Rooney

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. When you smile it's like the sun coming up.

Clark Gable

#31. 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

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

Clark Gable

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

Clark Gable

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

Clark Gable

#35. 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

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

Clark Gable

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

Clark Gable

#38. It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

Clark Gable

#39. It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

Clark Gable

#40. He will always be my Sir Galahad.

Ava Gardner

#41. 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

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

Clark Gable

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. Method actors are like hams.

Clark Gable

#46. I never laugh until I've had my coffee.

Clark Gable

#47. 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

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

Clark Gable

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Clark Gable

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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