Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

I didn't like school. Every day, it was a toss-up whether I'd go or skip.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

I studied violin when I was very young.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

I was so overwhelmed years ago, when I was a kid, by 'All Quiet on the Western Front.' I think it was the second movie I ever saw. I never got over that one.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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.

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

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