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Film Quotes by Clark Gable

149 quotes
Key to the City
Year: 1950

Director:
George Sidney
Steve Fisk: I proposed to YOU? All I said I was, 'You don't wanna marry a guy like me' and you said, 'Ohhh yes, I do.' I was smart enough to keep my mouth shut!
Wife vs. Secretary
Year: 1936

Director:
Clarence Brown
Van: I'm all fagged out.
Wife vs. Secretary
Year: 1936

Director:
Clarence Brown
Van: Who won the fight?
Simpson: Rosenblaum. In the third round.
Van: He did? I owe Finny a night off.
Simpson: Well with your night off and my three dollars, Finny should do quite well.
Van: You too? Maybe we should get rid of Finny.
Wife vs. Secretary
Year: 1936

Director:
Clarence Brown
Van: You know, it's amazing how a man can twist logic to suit his own ends.
The Hucksters
Year: 1947

Director:
Jack Conway
Victor Albee Norman: Miss Hammer, take a memorandum. To Mr. Kimberly: Dear Kim, For four years I haven't been listening to the radio much. Paragraph. Kim, in that time, it's gotten worse, if possible. More irritating, more commercials per minute, more spelling out of words, as if no one in the audience had gotten past the first grade. Paragraph. I know how tough Evans is, and some of the other sponsors, but I think we make a great mistake in letting them have their own way. We're paid to advise them. Why can't we advise them that people are grateful for what free entertainment they get on the air, grateful enough to buy the product that provides good shows. But, they have some rights, Kim, it's their homes we go into, and they're not grateful to people who get one foot in the door by pretending to offer them music and drama, and then take too much time in corny sales talk. Paragraph. I want to go on record as saying that I think radio has to turn over a new leaf. We've pushed and badgered the listeners, we've sung to them and screamed at them, we've insulted them, cheated them and angered them, turned their homes into a combination grocery store, crap game and midway. Kim, some day, 50 million people are going to just reach out and turn off their radios,
[snaps fingers]
Victor Albee Norman: snap, just like that - and that's the end of the gravy, for you, and me, and Evans. Sign it love and kisses, Vic.
-- Clark Gable (as Victor Albee Norman) in The Hucksters (1947)
Mogambo
Year: 1953

Director:
John Ford
Victor Marswell: I make my contribution to this mixed-up community they call the world.
-- Clark Gable (as Victor Marswell) in Mogambo (1953)
Mogambo
Year: 1953

Director:
John Ford
Victor Marswell: Sometimes it
[alcohol]
Victor Marswell: gets you nasty enough to get a nasty job done.
-- Clark Gable (as Victor Marswell) in Mogambo (1953)
The Misfits
Year: 1961

Director:
John Huston
Guido: Have you ever been outside Reno, Ms. Taber?
Roslyn: Once I walked to the edge of town; doesn't look like there's much out there.
Gay: Everything's there!
Roslyn: Like what?
Gay: The country!
Roslyn: Well, what do you do with yourself?
Gay: Just live.
Roslyn: How does anyone "just live"?
Gay: Well, you start by going to sleep. You get up when you feel like it. You scratch yourself. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is; throw stones at a can, whistle.
-- Clark Gable (as Gay Langland) in The Misfits (1961)
After Office Hours
Year: 1935

Director:
Robert Z. Leonard
Sharon Norwood: Why did you lie to me?
James 'Jim' Branch: If you were looking at what I'm looking at you'd know why I lied to you.
Night Nurse
Year: 1931

Director:
William A. Wellman
Lora Hart: I'll call the Doctor.
Nick, the Chauffeur: Listen, you'll do what I tell you.
Lora Hart: What are you trying to do? What he did?
Nick, the Chauffeur: No, but you're not gonna call a Doctor. You're a nurse, you give her the works yourself.
Lora Hart: I can't, except under Doctor's orders.
Nick, the Chauffeur: Oh, yes you can, and what's more, you will.
[squeezes her wrist tightly]
Lora Hart: I can't very well with a broken wrist.
[picks up the phone]
Lora Hart: Operator, operator, get me a Doctor quick!
Nick, the Chauffeur: Hang up, or I'll break your neck.
Lora Hart: What right have you to?
Nick, the Chauffeur: Plenty.
Mrs. Ritchey: Oh, be quiet!
Nick, the Chauffeur: Ah, shut up!
Nick, the Chauffeur: Oh, don't be sore, Nicky, Kiss me.
Nick, the Chauffeur: [to Lora] Get busy.
Lora Hart: I tell you I can't without the proper authority.
Nick, the Chauffeur: I give you the authority.
-- Clark Gable (as Nick, the Chauffeur) in Night Nurse (1931)