Anthony Quinn quotes
“In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.”
- From the movie: Lion of the Desert
“We will never surrender. We win or we die. And don't think it stops there. You will have the next generation to fight; and after the next, the next. As for me, I will live longer than my hangman.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.”
- From the movie: A Walk in the Clouds
“Talking between men and women never solves anything. Where we think, they feel. They are creatures of the heart.”
- From the movie: Zorba the Greek
“Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe.”
- From the movie: Zorba the Greek
- From the movie: Zorba the Greek
“You think too much. That is your trouble. Clever people and grocers, they weigh everything.”
- La trovi in Actors' Love Affairs
- La trovi in Insults
“An empty-headed blonde with a fat rear. Oh, Marilyn was pretty enough to look at, but there were hundreds of better-looking actresses poking around Hollywood.”
- La trovi in Actors' Love Affairs
“I was the only actor who never tried to have sex with Linda Darnell, and the only one to have resisted her advances.”
“I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian.”
- La trovi in Spare Time in Hollywood
“I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.”
- La trovi in Motivational Quotes
“Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.”
“On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.”
- From the movie: Zorba the Greek
“- Basil: An overhead cable? You're mad.
- Alexis Zorba: Why?
- Basil: That forest doesn't belong to us.
- Alexis Zorba: Well, it doesn't, and then it does.
- Basil: What does that mean?
- Alexis Zorba: It belong to the monastery. The monastery belongs to God, and God belongs to everybody. Do you agree?” - From the movie: Zorba the Greek
“On a deaf man's door, you can knock forever.”
- From the movie: Zorba the Greek
“All right, we go outside where God can see us better.”
- From the movie: Lion of the Desert
“- Gen. Rodolfo Graziani: I want to ask you one question. Why did you keep going for so long? I mean, surely you didn't hope to drive us out of Libya with so little, did you?
- Omar Mukhtar: We fought you. That was enough.
- Gen. Rodolfo Graziani: And you cared nothing for the ruination of your country?
- Omar Mukhtar: You are the ruination of my...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Only the Lonely
“- Nick Acropolis: Rose! Rose, I am trying again. Will you please accept these flowers?
- Rose Muldoon: I don't want them. And I don't date Greeks.
- Nick Acropolis: You know, you and I could make each other so happy. Greek men are great lovers.
- Rose Muldoon: And Greek men never bathe.” - From the movie: A Walk in the Clouds
“Clothes are like family. You have to live in them for awhile before you have the perfect fit.”
- From the movie: The Greek Tycoon
“God, what a woman! Let's go and make love.”
- From the movie: Revenge
- From the movie: Lion of the Desert
- Omar Mukhtar: We do not kill prisoners!
- Arab Warrior: They do it to us!
- Omar Mukhtar: "They" are not our teachers!
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