Quotes from Anthony Quinn

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Usluga je stvar koja se najteže vra?a.

Whereas most civilized people she knew regarded conversation as a form of tennis- you put a few questions over the net, then your opponent would lob a few back- Mrs Land was strictly in the business of receiving rather than serving.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I didn't intend to become an actor.

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

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.

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.