Anthony Quinn famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Girl #Country #Wind
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Stage #Audience
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.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Eye #Men #Blue
I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Painting
I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.
-- Anthony Quinn
And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Men #Thinking #Mets
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.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Brother #Mexican #Bob
I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Father #Years #Lost
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.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Mean #Boys #Names
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.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Thinking #Rhode Island #Islands
I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Son #Barcelona #Madly In Love
I didn't intend to become an actor.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Actors
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.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Challenges #Roles #London
Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Children #Dad #Father
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.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Railroads #Mexico #West Coast
See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Coffee #Special #Parlor
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.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Lying #Men #Fire
You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...
-- Anthony Quinn

#Depression #Men #Needs
Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?
-- Anthony Quinn

#Men #Decision #Decision Making
No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Kids #Parent #Forever
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.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Sunday #Insomnia #One Day
There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Parent #Forever

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