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  • I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

  • I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

    Names   Two   Long  
  • Everything I do has a moral to it.

    Moral  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

    Rolling   Alive   Wayne  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Three quarters of producers don't even know who I am. The other quarter think I am dead.

    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

  • Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.

    Numbers   People   Navy  
  • I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm going to be 65 years old, and I'm retiring and I'm quitting and that's it." Well, two weeks later they're saying to themselves, "What the hell am I gonna do?" And first thing you know they find themselves in a wheelchair or in a rocking chair going back and forth, back and forth, and that's the end of it. And suddenly you're dead.

    Boys   Thinking   Waiting  
    Source: film.avclub.com
  • It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.

    "Ernest Borgnine Passes Away at 95" by Harout Harmanian, movieweb.com. July 8, 2012.
  • Fathers and mothers are just people, which means they make mistakes. Don't hold that against them. Whatever flaws they may have, they created you in a moment of love, and are among the few who knew you when. When they're gone, there won't be anyone to take their place.

    Mother   Father   Mistake  
    Ernest Borgnine (2009). “Ernie: The Autobiography”, p.296, Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • A lot of people forget that today. They come to the point where you walk on a set and the first thing you know you're looking at the sound man and you're saying to yourself, "How the hell can they get any sound when nobody is talking!" They get all mumbly. You can't make out what they're saying! And you're 6 feet away from them! Whereas in the old-time movies, you hear them, you understand every word they're saying, and you didn't have to put on your loudspeaker.

    Men   People   Today  
    Source: film.avclub.com
  • You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

    Pain   Long   Enough  
    "Fictional character: Marty Piletti". "Marty", 1955.
  • Every time you play one old-time picture along with today's kind of work, and they throw in the computers and the guns and the this and the that and the God-almighty, it gets to be a hassle and you wonder who the hell's doing what!

    Gun   Kind   Computer  
    Source: film.avclub.com
  • Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.

    Mind   Cameras   Steps  
  • I like to keep at my craft. I like to keep reading scripts, whether I'm in it or not because of the fact that what would I do in a certain case? How would this happen or how would that go? I like to keep working with my mind, so when I do perform I have something to perform with, and it's not just like trying on new clothes. You're trying on a suit, but you know where the heck the pants go.

    Reading   Mind   Trying  
    Source: film.avclub.com
  • I got a damn good mind to write a book about all the feelings that I have inside about all these things that happened in our life that we're making happen and letting it happen when it shouldn't be happening.

    Book   Writing   Feelings  
    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.

    Giving   Matter  
  • Gary Cooper - the greatest listener in the world! And he used to answer in kind, which is wonderful because you don't see that anymore. People don't listen. They really don't.

    People   World   Kind  
    Source: film.avclub.com
  • We've all got a lot of catching up to do. I'm still learning how to act, for god's sake. When I see these old-timers on the Turner Classic Movies, I still get ideas, you know. That's where you really learn acting. If you really see some of these old boys working it and you say to yourself, "My God, if I could really do that that would be wonderful."

    Boys   Acting   Classic  
    Source: film.avclub.com
  • We got together, and Bruce Willis was just a sweet animal, a sweetheart. I tell you, right down to the core he's just a real professional, a real gentleman, and I must say I'm so very happy for him that he's got a heck of a good film.

    Sweet   Real   Animal  
    Source: film.avclub.com
  • There's an awful lot to be desired. I've gone to places where people say to me, "What's your technique?" Technique? What the hell technique is there to acting? We're acting because even with my voice I'm giving what I think is what I want to say.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • I'm still watching all those old-timers really going along, and I'm enjoying it so much, not just looking at the pictures, but looking at the acting. Paul Muni. Beautiful character. Edward G. Robinson. Jimmy Cagney. All those old boys. You don't find those characters anymore.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.

    Heart   Play   People  
    "Ernest Borgnine, rugged actor with range, dies", www.sfgate.com. July 8, 2012.
  • I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

    Thinking   Clown   Knows  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Today's work, I don't know it just doesn't make sense, a lot of it. It's just guns and sex and more guns and more sex. You say to yourself, when the hell are you gonna get down to the nitty-gritty and do something good so people can be entertained? I mean if they call this entertainment.

    Mean   Gun   People  
    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

  • The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

    Stars   Grateful   Oscars  
  • You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

    People   Acting   Cameras  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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