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
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.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
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 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.
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.
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.