I’m no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
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.
The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great – and they know I know it.
I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Method actors are like hams.
When the public doesn’t want me any longer, I’ll quit.
Clark Gable was the only real he-man I’ve ever known, of all the actors I’ve met.
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.
I don’t want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I’m dead.
If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
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.
They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.
I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
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.
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.