Anthony Quinn Quotes

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.

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• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

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• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  

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• When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.

  

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• I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

  

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• Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

  

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• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

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• We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

  

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• I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

  

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• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

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• Our career had a sort of funny shape.

  

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• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

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• There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.

  

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• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

  

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• I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

  

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• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

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• My vegetarian diet allows me to lead a healthier lifestyle, reduce my carbon footprint, and save the lives of more than 100 animals every year. I’m stronger and healthier than ever, and I feel good about doing something positive for myself, animals, and the planet.

  

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• I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

  

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• 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.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Eyes
  • Blue
  • Talent