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 want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.
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.
Method actors are like hams.
When the public doesn't want me any longer, I'll quit.
Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.
If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
 nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended. )
Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.
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.
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 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 thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.
Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man.
I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.
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.
I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.
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'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
When you smile it's like the sun coming up.
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.
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.
I never laugh until I've had my coffee.
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.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to 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.
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 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.
