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Quotes About Clark Gable

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
~ Leslie Caron
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 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
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
Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, 'Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I'm just leaving.'
~ Debbie Reynolds
'All the Stars in the Heavens' takes place during the golden age of Hollywood, around an imagined story about Loretta Young; Clark Gable; Alda, a young woman with a secret who is preparing to become a nun but is cast out of her convent; and the scenic artist she meets on the set of 'The Call of the Wild.' It's a big, lush historical novel.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
~ Esther Williams
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
When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
~ Marilyn Monroe
after a luncheon party with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, Greta Garbo, and two producers—"I think it was a psychological test to see how I would act"—Knopf offered O'Brien work as MGM's "European Scenario Editor.
~ Heidi Pitlor
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
If you can't go to Hollywood You don't have to cry; Clark Gable is good looking But so am I.
~ Unknown
Clark Gable once said to me, 'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!
~ Mickey Rooney