Gable Quotes

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid. (Esther Williams)

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

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

Anna Nicole Smith

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

Billy West

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

Gene Tierney

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

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

Leslie Caron

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... And to meet whom did Franklin D. Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama.

Lauren Bacall

A lot of the old movie stars couldn't act their way out of a box of wet tissue paper, but they were successful because they had distinctive personalities. They were predictable brands of breakfast cereal: on Wednesdays we had Quaker Oats and Gary Cooper; on Fridays we had Wheaties and Clark Gable. They were off-the-shelf products you expected always to be the same, actors and actresses with likable personalities who played themselves more or less the same role the same way every time out.

Marlon Brando

The real movie stars were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift. How could I put myself in the same category as Clark Gable? Tom Cruise is a great movie star. Do I consider myself a movie star? I consider myself a guy with a good job, an interesting job.

Johnny Depp

This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in the twilight, and broke some arms and legs and one thing or another, and by good luck was found by some peasants who had lost an ass, and they carried me to the nearest habitation, which was one of those large, low, thatch-roofed farm-houses, with apartments in the garret for the family, and a cunning little porch under the deep gable decorated with boxes of bright colored flowers and cats; on the ground floor a large and light sitting-room, separated from the milch-cattle apartment by a partition; and in the front yard rose stately and fine the wealth and pride of the house, the manure-pile. That sentence is Germanic, and shows that I am acquiring that sort of mastery of the art and spirit of the language which enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. (Mark Twain)

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

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

Carroll Baker

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

And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

Eli Wallach

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

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

A few months before the murder [of Domitian] a raven perched on the Capitol and croaked out the words: "All will be well!" – a portent which some wag explained in the following verse: There was a raven, strange to tell, Perched upon Jove's own gable, whence He tried to tell us "All is well!" – But had to use the future tense.

Suetonius

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

Oriana Fallaci

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

Vin Diesel

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep. (Marilyn Monroe)