Anthony Quinn Quotes

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn’t working, he’s a bum.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• I love the stage.

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

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

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

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

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• I didn’t intend to become an actor.

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Anthony Quinn (25)

Birth:	21st April, 1915
Death:	3rd June, 2001
Nationality:	American, Mexican
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Painter, Writer

About

Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca in Chihuahua, Mexico. He was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including La Strada, The Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia, Zorba the Greek, Guns for San Sebastian, The Message and Lion of the Desert. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: for Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956.

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