Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Carroll Baker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Carroll Baker.
Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker is an American actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

I was very young when I saw 'Gone With the Wind,' but I fell in love with Clark Gable. And when I got to work with him, I couldn't believe it. I still had a crush on him. He was quite an old man by then; he must have seen that I was head over heels, even though I was married.
Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.
The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it. — © Carroll Baker
The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it.
After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'
When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.
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