Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony Quinn

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Mexican actor Anthony Quinn.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca, known professionally as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor. He was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental virility" in numerous critically acclaimed films both in Hollywood and abroad. His notable films include La Strada, The Guns of Navarone, Guns for San Sebastian, Lawrence of Arabia, The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Message, Lion of the Desert, and A Walk in the Clouds. He also had an Oscar-nominated titular role in Zorba the Greek.

Mexican - Actor | April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001

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

Anthony Quinn

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

Anthony Quinn

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

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

Anthony Quinn

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

Anthony Quinn

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

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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.

Anthony Quinn

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.

Anthony Quinn

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

I love the stage.

Anthony Quinn

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.

Anthony Quinn

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

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

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.

Anthony Quinn

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

Anthony Quinn

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

Anthony Quinn

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

Anthony Quinn

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

Anthony Quinn

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

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

Anthony Quinn

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

Anthony Quinn

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

I didn't intend to become an actor.

Anthony Quinn

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

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

Anthony Quinn

I love, love, love women.

Anthony Quinn

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

Anthony Quinn

See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.

Anthony Quinn

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

Anthony Quinn

There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.

Anthony Quinn

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

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.

Anthony Quinn

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

Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony Quinn

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