Biography
Ernest Borgnine Quotes
“Spencer Tracy was the first actor I’ve ever seen who could just look down in the dirt and command a scene. He played a set-up with Robert Ryan that way. He’s looking down at the road and then he looks at Ryan at just the precise, right minute. I tell you, Rob could’ve stood on his head and zipped open his fly and the scene would still’ve been Tracy’s.”
“I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.”
“I’m what you call a Depression sailor.”
“I’ve been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.”
“The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.”
