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

- Ernest Borgnine

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

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

- 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 created you in …

- Ernest Borgnine

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

- Ernest Borgnine

It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a g…

- Ernest Borgnine

If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

- 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 my estimation - it's a lost art the…

- Ernest Borgnine

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

- Ernest Borgnine