Clark Gable Quotes

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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.

Clark Gable

Death, Men, Dying

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

Clark Gable

Movie, Badass, Wind

"Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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I never laugh until I've had my coffee.

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Coffee, Laughing

"Fictional character: Babe Stewart". "No Man of Her Own", www.imdb.com. 1932.

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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.

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Mother, Song, Fighting

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.

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Farewell, Kissing, Tears

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Makeup, Needs, Vain

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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Sun

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I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

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People, Actors, Has Beens

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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Love, Inspirational, Girl

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

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Ohio, Lucky, Right Time

"The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds". Book by James Robert Parish, p. 67, 2004.

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

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Life, Reason, Knows

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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.

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Fishing, Dames, Hell

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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.

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Hair, Age, Weight

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Song, Men, Odds

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

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Roles

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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.

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Men, Doe, Different

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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.

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Keys, Lessons, Have Faith

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Mother, Self Esteem, Men

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Hurt, Should Have, Feelings

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Hate, Liars, Lying

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.

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Coffee, Interesting, May

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Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaux. I want more than flirting from you.
Scarlett: What do you want?
Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: "I love you!"
Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me, Captain Butler, as long as you live.

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Love, Flirting, Long

"Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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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.

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Stars, Eight, Wind

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Stage Actors, Broadway, Knows

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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."

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War, Believe, Mean

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Born: February 1, 1901
Died: November 16, 1960
Occupation: Film actor
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