Lee Marvin Quotes

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Lee Marvin

Profession : Actor

Birth : February 19, 1924

It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn't so hard.

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As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

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I studied violin when I was very young.

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Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

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I once tried to figure out the first time I felt guilt, and it goes so far back that I might have been an inch long at the time.

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I only make movies to finance my fishing.

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I didn't get my hair cut for two movies, and it got a little long. I'm going back to a... not a crew cut. Back to, oh, about a Presbyterian length.

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My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

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Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

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In school, I couldn't see any sense to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sure, they kicked me out, but for trifles, like continual daydreaming and smoking, that wouldn't be grounds for expulsion nowadays.

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I was on Saipan when I got hit. Not too bad, but bad enough to hamper me if I stayed. I was hit in my left buttocks just below the belt line.

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A guy digging ditches or a plumber wiping joints - it solves problems, you know? You have to dig this hole so wide, so long, so deep. You dig it, and that's it.

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If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

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It's important not to think too much about what you do.

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The first day of 'Liberty,' I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in. Everybody told me how tough he was and not to say anything, or he'd single you out and get on you the whole shoot. But as he walked in, I got up and saluted him.

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After a sheltered life, I went the other way. I wanted to prove how tough I was.

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Wardrobe is - in films, I could say it's a good half of the acting. You get the right rags on, they'll talk for you.

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I know Chicago cops. They're tough. They have to be. The whole city would explode. It's like a bomb, Chicago.

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It's one of the things I always do. I move faster onscreen. Creates a sense of danger.

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My father was tough. At least, he thought so, and I guess I have a lot of his traits.

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