Franco Nero Quotes

Italy, Actor
November 23, 1941

Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), better known by his stage name Franco Nero, is an Italian actor. He is best known for his breakthrough role as the title character in Sergio Corbucci's Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), a role that he reprised in Nello Rossati's Django Strikes Again (1987).

If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.

Franco Nero
- Movie
- Star
I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.

Franco Nero
- Time
- Money
- Career

You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this.

Franco Nero
- Smoking
Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered.

Franco Nero
- Life
I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

Franco Nero
- Crazy
- Wine
- Drinking
It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

Franco Nero
- Die
Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

Franco Nero
- Horse
- Cowboy
I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

Franco Nero
- Theatre

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Franco Nero
- Tombstone
Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

Franco Nero
There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.'

Franco Nero