Ricardo Montalban famous quotes

03-18-2025

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Play #Dignity #Respecting Others
True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Love #Together #Gone
If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Hands #Guy #Fists
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Strong #Weight #Want
What is appealing is the idea of attaining the unattainable and learning from it. Once you obtain a fantasy it becomes a reality, and that reality is not as exciting as your fantasy. Through the fantasies you learn to appreciate your own realities.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Reality #Ideas #Appreciate
It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Latin #Wings #Actors
Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Writing #Elderly #People
Revenge is a dish best served cold
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Revenge #Cold #Dishes
There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Children #Lost Love #Discipline
And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Pain #Blessing #Men
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Country #Brother #Party
My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Sports #Father #Self

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