Anthony Quinn quotes:

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...

I love, love, love women.

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

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

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.