Clark Gable Quotes

William Clark Gable was an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He began his career appearing as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1930. The next year, he landed his first leading Hollywood role, and over the next three decades, he was a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures.

Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night , and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty and for his best-known role as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind . Gable also found success commercially and critically with films such as Red Dust , Manhattan Melodrama , San Francisco , Saratoga , Test Pilot , Boom Town , The Hucksters , Homecoming , and The Misfits , which was his final screen appearance.Gable appeared opposite some of the most popular actresses of the time. Joan Crawford was his favorite actress to work with, and she was partnered with Gable in eight films. Myrna Loy worked with him seven times, and he was paired with Jean Harlow in six productions. He also starred with Lana Turner in four features, and with Norma Shearer and Ava Gardner in three each. Gable's final film, The Misfits , united him with Marilyn Monroe .

Gable is considered one of the most consistent box-office performers in history, appearing on Quigley Publishing's annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll 16 times. He was named the seventh-greatest male star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute.

✵ 1. February 1901 – 16. November 1960

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Clark Gable Quotes

“All this "King" stuff is pure bullshit. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like anyone else.”

Clark Gable

Quoted in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, and John Walker, p. 181, and The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds and Affairs of More than 100 American Movie and TV idols (2004) by James Robert Parish, p. 67
Context: All this "King" stuff is pure bullshit. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like anyone else. I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Sleep

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

Clark Gable

As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 3

Life