Quinn Quotes

(on his divorce from Ingrid Quinn:) "It was great at first, but soon became a real burden. Ingrid found it tough to cope with the fact that all of a sudden I`d become public property as opposed to her husband." (June 9, 2003)

(1973 comment on Anthony Quinn) At his best he`s a marvelous actor and he`s a very instinctive actor. He has a sort of animal quality, although I think he`s got a bit stuck with it. He`s a larger than life character. He`s that without trying before he starts. He`s not the easiest man to work with by any means. He`s quite temperamental.

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.

(on being typecast) If you look at the careers of people like Anthony Quinn, Cagney, even Tommy Lee Jones, they all were cast as villains. There comes a certain point in your life, in your late 30s, early 40s, when suddenly that can change. Maybe a director sees a glimpse of something else within you along the way. I played comedy in The Goonies, which showed something else was going on. Even when I played the Bond villain in Licence to Kill, there were some people who were rooting for that character ahead of the traditional hero. Now, in Profiler, I get to play Bailey Malone, and I get to show another essence of myself. Stage performances show off multi-varied aspects of an actor, film has always been something else entirely. You always have a prejudice as to what you can and can`t do, but your soul is able to come out more.

Tony Quinn would pick me up and shake me. I`d see his thumbs coming out. I don`t think anybody ever should be hurt onstage. It`s not art, it`s crap!

I dont like any of them, because they don`t read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn`t read the book either.

We feel pretty good about our ones. There`s some guys there that may not have the experience, like a Kayle Buchanan or a Quinn Gooch, but the effort is always going to be there. They`re going to be assignment sound.

It`s crazy. I`ve never been involved with anything like this. You hear of one guy going down, or at the most, two. But to have three guys. Here it was a week ago and Quinn was on his couch. Now he`s starting this week. It`s a weird set of circumstances.