A biography for Lee Marvinhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My father was tough. At least, he thought so, and I guess I have a lot of his traits.”
“I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.”
“If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.”
“There are two types of people: those that are going somewhere and those that ain't.”