Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine
Ermes Effron Borgnino, known as Ernest Borgninewas an American film and television actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1955 for Marty. On television, he played Quinton McHale in the 1962–1966 series McHale's Navy and co-starred in the mid-1980s action series Airwolf, in addition to a wide variety of other roles. Borgnine earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth24 January 1917
CityHamden, CT
CountryUnited States of America
I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.
I'm what you call a Depression sailor.
It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.
You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!
Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.
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 a moment of love, and are among the few who knew you when. When they're gone, there won't be anyone to take their place.
Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.
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 great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.
Everything I do has a moral to it.