Latest Ernest Borgnine Quotes from Interviews

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• I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Art, Character, Men

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Men, People, Today

  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.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Thinking, People, Giving

  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.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Beautiful, Character, Boys

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Ernest Borgnine

  People, World, Kind

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  Ernest Borgnine

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Boys, Thinking, Waiting

  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."

  Ernest Borgnine

  Boys, Acting, Classic

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Reading, Mind, Trying

  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.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Sweet, Real, Animal

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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!

  Ernest Borgnine

  Gun, Kind, Computer

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I am very proud of having won Oscar because I know what I put into it. I know that the people who voted for me voted because they thought I was the best at that time. It's a wonderful thing to look up there and see that you achieved something that your peers gave to you and appreciation for your work. That's most of all what I think about when I see the Oscar.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Appreciation, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

• This is the kind of upbringing we had instead of sitting in front of a damn television set all day long and never answering to anybody else unless somebody spoke up from a television set. It's an altogether different way of living today that you wonder how it really affects the family? I know how it affects the family because I have my own son who has his children and also my daughter. It's one of those things. Everybody eats in their own way and off they go. You know? It's not family oriented anymore."

  Ernest Borgnine

  Daughter, Children, Son

  Source: www.cyinterview.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.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Book, Writing, Feelings

  Source: www.cyinterview.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.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Mean, Gun, People

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

• Three quarters of producers don't even know who I am. The other quarter think I am dead.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Thinking, Producers

  Source: www.cyinterview.com