Quotations and phrases - 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

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

But I've gotten to love painting, actually because I can't sculpt as much as I used to. I can't hold up the hammer.
-- Anthony Quinn

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

I didn't intend to become an actor.
-- Anthony Quinn

I don't know. I'm - I guess I'm a good father, because I'm vitally, vitally interested in the future of my children.
-- Anthony Quinn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, yes, my grandfather was Irish, and he was - he was with a visiting bunch of Irish that came to fight in the revolution in Mexico.
-- Anthony Quinn

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

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

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

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

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