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Anthony Quinn
April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001
Nationality: Mexican
Category: Actor
Subcategory: Mexican 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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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 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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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