Anthony Quinn Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I didn't intend to become an actor.

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.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

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

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.

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.

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.

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.

I love, love, love women.

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

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.