Quotes from Clark Gable

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 bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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

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.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

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.

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

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.

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.