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.
As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.
I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.
I only make movies to finance my fishing'.
If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.
Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.
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.
Appeared in three movies with John Wayne: The Comancheros, Donovan's Reef, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Marvin attended St. Leo College in Florida for a brief period of time before enlisting in the Marines.
Marvin had a small role in the 1954 classic drama The Caine Mutiny. He played a sailor nicknamed "Meatball."
Marvin was an avid deep sea fisherman who appeared on several episodes of the ABC outdoor show The American Sportsman.
Claimed to be a direct descendant of both Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee.
Lee Marvin's last appearance on-screen was in the 1986 action adventure film Delta Force in which he so-starred with Chuck Norris.
Marvin worked with noted horror star Lon Chaney, Jr. twice: first in the movie Not as a Stranger, second in an episode of Wagon Train entitled The Jose Morales Story.
Stephen Spielberg wanted Marvin to play Quint in Jaws. The role went to Robert Shaw after Marvin turned it down.
Lee Marvin co-starred with Ronald Reagan in the 1964 film The Killers. That movie marked Reagan's final movie appearance.
Marvin played villainous supporting roles in the classic 1950's films The Wild One and Bad Day at Black Rock.
Marvin reprised his Dirty Dozen role in a 1985 made-for-TV movie. Ernest Borgnine and Richard Jaeckel also reprised their roles from the original cast.
Marvin became good friends with actress Vivian Leigh when they co-starred together in Ship of Fools.
Lee Marvin was married to Betty Ebeling from 1951 until 1967 although they had separated years earlier. He got married again to Pamela Feeley, a woman he'd known in high school, in 1970. This second marriage lasted until his death.
His long time live-in lover Michelle Triola sued him for a substantial portion of his assets in 1973. Triola lost most of her case but Marvin was required to make support payments to her. Triola would later shack up with Dick Van Dyke.
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