A Quote by Mickey Rooney

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

Mickey Rooney

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Mickey Rooney
American - Actor
September 23, 1920 - April 6, 2014

Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'

Vivien Leigh

Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.

Fay Wray

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

Esther Williams

When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.

Carroll Baker

Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, 'Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I'm just leaving.'

Debbie Reynolds

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.

Anna Nicole Smith

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

Marilyn Monroe

Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.

Elizabeth Taylor

Do what ya have to do to pay off yer debt with Heaven,’ he said, his concern for proper speech abandoned. ‘But ya do not die on me, ya understand? I can’t live without ya. Yer all I got, woman.’ Her breath caught in her lungs. ‘I don’t want to be here if you’re not.

Jana Oliver

If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'

Vin Diesel

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

Gary Cooper

If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.

Vin Diesel

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

Clark Gable

It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly.