Quotes
 Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby. [on Robert Mitchum] The beauty of that man. He`s so still. He`s moving and yet he`s not moving.
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[upon accepting his Best Actor Academy Award for Cat Ballou (1965)] I think half of this belongs to a horse somewhere out in the [San Fernando] Valley.
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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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[on Robert Aldrich] I loved Aldrich. Very saddened by his passing. Richard Jaeckel was a good friend of his. He went to see him on his last stretch in the hospital. He was in a coma much of the time. And Jaeckel asks if there is anything he can get him. And Aldrich says, "Yeah, a good script."
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[on Marlon Brando] Brando is not exactly a generous actor, he doesn`t give. But he does make demands on you and if you don`t come through then he`ll run right over the top of you.
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[on Sam Peckinpah] Sam was dangerous for me. He had my number and I had his, and that can be bad between an actor and a director. `Cause he was a little guy.
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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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There was that very credible virility of guys like Spencer Tracy or Humphrey Bogart. I don`t think that I could one day resemble them, but in life and in movies I profoundly admired Bogart, both personally and professionally.
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[on working with Paul Newman on Pocket Money (1972)] I remember "Pocket Money." At the beginning, it was understood that Newman and I would earn the same amount and have roles of equal importance. Well, I`ve never seen a situation so much reversed. It was Newman`s company who produced the film and when they came to show it, Newman had become the sole star and I was nowhere.
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Stimulation? Thursdays. Motivation? Thursdays. Paydays. That`s it. It`s important not to think too much about what you do. You see, with my way of thinking there are always Thursdays -- no matter how the picture works out.
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Trivia
Was offered the role of Col. Douglas Mortimer in Per qualche dollaro in più (1965), but turned it down to star in Cat Ballou (1965).
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Was Steven Spielberg's first choice to play Quint in Jaws (1975).
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Was offered the lead in The War of the Worlds (1953).
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While serving in the Marine Corps he became best friends with John Miara of Malden, MA. Miara became Marvin's model for the character of Maj. Reisman in The Dirty Dozen (1967).
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Says he learned to "act" in the Marines, trying to act unafraid during ferocious combat, which brought him a Purple Heart during invasion of Saipan.
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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 611-613. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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His body was interred next to that of Joe Louis in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.
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Daughter Courtenay born 1954.
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Son Christopher born 1952.
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Could not ride a motorcycle at the time The Wild One (1953) was filmed but, determined not to be bettered by the star, Marlon Brando, he quickly learned. He later became a keen competitor on his Triumph 200cc Tiger Cub in desert races.
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Turned down William Holden's role in The Wild Bunch (1969) in order to make Paint Your Wagon (1969).
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Daughter Claudia born 1958.
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Together with actors Nicolas Cage (Adaptation. (2002)) José Ferrer (Moulin Rouge (1952)) and Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)), he is the only actor with an Oscar nomination for playing multiple characters in a film (in Cat Ballou (1965), he plays two characters, Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn). Marvin is the only one who actually won one for a double role.
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Was a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson and twice a descendant of male line relatives of George Washington.
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Revisted Saipan (where he was wounded during World War II) in 1967, where his guide was P.F. Kluge, who went on to write Eddie and the Cruisers (1983).
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Named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, who was his second cousin three times removed.
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John Boorman original wanted Marvin and Marlon Brando to play Ed and Lewis, respectively, in Deliverance (1972). But Marvin suggested that he and Brando were too old and that Boorman should use younger actors.
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Was as surprised as anyone when his recording of "Wandering Star", from the Paint Your Wagon (1969) soundtrack, became a surprise hit, earning the Gold Record (the standard in those days) for one million copies sold in 1969.
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Daughter Cynthia born 1956.
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Not a sentimental man by nature, Marvin kept only four souvenirs of his career over the years. These were his Best Actor Oscar for Cat Ballou (1965), the citation he received from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame for his performance in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), his Gold Record for "Wandering Star" and the high-heeled shoe that Vivien Leigh beat him with in Ship of Fools (1965).
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Bonded with co-star Vivien Leigh on the set of Ship of Fools (1965). When he and his partner Michelle Triola visited Leigh at her exquisite home in England, he tore up a deck of antique playing cards that they were playing with. Much to Triola's surprise, Leigh was not at all disturbed by Marvin's boorish behavior but seemed enchanted by him.
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Turned down the lead role of Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in Patton (1970).
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US Marines, wounded in the battle of Saipan during WWII
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