Anthony Quinn Quotes
I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
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But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.
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I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.
