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.

Anthony Quinn

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• Talent
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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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• 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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• 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