Anthony Quinn Quotes

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

I love, love, love women.

See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

I didn't intend to become an actor.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.