Anthony Quinn Quotes

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn`t working, he`s a bum.

(on Ingrid Bergman) I reckon there wasn`t a man who came within a mile of her who didn`t fall in love with her.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.

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.

(speaking in the 1980s) I don`t see many men today. I see a lot of guys running around on television with small waists, but I don`t see many men.

I mean, you know, actors lives - you`re forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They`re forgotten after awhile.

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

I love the stage.

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

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.

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

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

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.

(when asked about his ethnicity) It doesn`t make a difference as long as I`m a person in the world.

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

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

No parent is there forever. So I won`t be here forever with these kids.

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.

First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that`s normal. I understand that. I don`t quarrel with that.

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

They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don`t just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you`re not allowed to come into my town.

Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You`ll never get that money from me.

Well, I mean, bread, I mean, I`ve got to have bread too to live.

I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now.

I didn`t intend to become an actor.

Oh, yes, my grandfather was Irish, and he was - he was with a visiting bunch of Irish that came to fight in the revolution in Mexico.

Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can`t say two words to each other. We really can`t talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can`t talk. I mean, he`d talk to you. But he can`t talk.

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.

I never satisfied that kid (referring to himself), but I think he and I have made a deal now. It`s like climbing a mountain. I didn`t take him up Mount Everest, but I took him up Mount Whitney. And I think that`s not bad.

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