Clark Gable
Clark Gable
Clark Gablewas an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King". Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for MGM in 1931. The next year, he landed his first leading Hollywood role and became a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures over the next three decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 February 1901
CityCadiz, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. . . . All we've got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance." "I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory."