Ernest Borgnine

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

— Ernest Borgnine

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

— Ernest Borgnine

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

— Ernest Borgnine

Everything I do has a moral to it.

— Ernest Borgnine

I like to keep at my craft. I like to keep reading scripts, whether I'm in it or not because of the…

— Ernest Borgnine

I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today -…

— Ernest Borgnine

It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.

— Ernest Borgnine

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…

— Ernest Borgnine

I just want to do more work. Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really…

— Ernest Borgnine

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in…

— Ernest Borgnine

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

— Ernest Borgnine

Fathers and mothers are just people, which means they make mistakes. Don't hold that against them. Whatever flaws they may have, they…

— Ernest Borgnine

You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you…

— Ernest Borgnine

Gary Cooper - the greatest listener in the world! And he used to answer in kind, which is wonderful because you don't…

— Ernest Borgnine

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're…

— Ernest Borgnine

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten…

— Ernest Borgnine

To this day I clean better than most maids.

— Ernest Borgnine

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat,…

— Ernest Borgnine

It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing…

— Ernest Borgnine

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…

— Ernest Borgnine

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with…

— Ernest Borgnine

I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm…

— Ernest Borgnine

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

— Ernest Borgnine

This is the kind of upbringing we had instead of sitting in front of a damn television set all day long and…

— Ernest Borgnine

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say…

— Ernest Borgnine