Anthony Quinn Quotes

I didn't intend to become an actor.

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• What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Great
  • Success
  • Perfect

• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Nature

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Band

• I can do a good John Wayne.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • I Can
  • John Wayne

• That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

  

  Carole King
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Record
  • Regime

• The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Freedom
  • Way
  • Punk

• You make me feel like a natural man

  

  Carole King
  • Men
  • Feels
  • Natural

• It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

  

  Carole King
  • Difficult
  • Stuff
  • Evaluate

• Most parents don’t know really their children.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Parents

• I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People

• Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Song
  • Vision

• I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

  

  Deborah Kampmeier
  • Actors
  • Process
  • Public

• Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Soul
  • Play
  • Feel

• Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.

  

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  • Know
  • Get
  • Brethren

• I didn't intend to become an actor.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Actors