63 Quotes by Clark Gable

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

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.

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

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

Method actors are like hams.

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.

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.

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.