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Film Quotes by Anthony Quinn

76 quotes
Cardinal Leone: Do you accept election?
[Kiril hesitates]
Cardinal Leone: You must answer now. Do you accept election?
Kiril Lakota: I accept. And may God have mercy on me.
Cardinal Leone: By what name will you be called?
Kiril Lakota: We choose to be called by our own name, Kiril. He was the saint that first brought the Gospels into our country.
-- Anthony Quinn (as Kiril Lakota) in The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
The Savage Innocents
Year: 1960

Director:
Nicholas Ray
Asiak: [Showing Inuk their newborn baby] It came to pass that a woman brought forth a child.
Inuk: [Not comprehending at first] How so?
[Holds up baby]
Inuk: Someone has seen bear cubs that were better looking
Asiak: He will improve as he grows, but he has everything he needs.Even a name. His name is Papik.
Inuk: How do you know his name is Papik?
Asiak: Because this useless woman likes that name.
Inuk: [laughs and plays with infant and touches its mouth, then suddenly freezes mid-air] Asiak, he has no teeth, You must have broken some taboo!
Asiak: Not to my knowledge!
Inuk: Did we see land animals together with sea animals?
Asiak: [Emphatically] Of course not!How about you breaking some taboo?Perhaps it goes to the white man?
[In reference to missionary that Inuk accidentally killed previously]
Inuk: [after prolonged silence] Maybe
-- Anthony Quinn (as Inuk) in The Savage Innocents (1960)
La Bataille de San Sebastian
Year: 1968

Director:
Henri Verneuil
Kinita: Where are you going?
Leon Alastray: What difference does it make? A man goes from the place he is born to the place he dies.
-- Anthony Quinn (as Leon Alastray) in La Bataille de San Sebastian (1968)
La Bataille de San Sebastian
Year: 1968

Director:
Henri Verneuil
Kinita: Would you?
Leon Alastray: Would I what?
Kinita: Hear my confession.
Leon Alastray: Sure. If you will hear mine first.
Kinita: I don't understand.
Leon Alastray: I'll make it quick. I am not a priest. If you ever need money, there's a price on my head.
Kinita: No, it's not true.
Leon Alastray: [looks at her as if to decide how to convince her, then grabs her hair and kisses her roughly] That's my confession! You want to tell me yours?
[laughing]
-- Anthony Quinn (as Leon Alastray) in La Bataille de San Sebastian (1968)
Dr. Ruth Faber: We're all in prison one way or another.
Kiril Lakota: Yes, and those who understand it, suffer most of all.
-- Anthony Quinn (as Kiril Lakota) in The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Zorba the Greek
Year: 1964

Director:
Mihalis Kakogiannis
Basil: I don't want any trouble.
Alexis Zorba: Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
-- Anthony Quinn (as Alexis Zorba) in Zorba the Greek (1964)
The Long Wait
Year: 1954

Director:
Victor Saville
Laurie: So when we leaving, honey?
Johnny: I'm leaving now.
[kisses her]
Johnny: I'm traveling light.
[throws her at Chuck]
Johnny: Here, Chuck, it's all yours!
-- Anthony Quinn (as Johnny McBride) in The Long Wait (1954)
Barabbas
Year: 1961

Director:
Richard Fleischer
[after being released from jail, Barabbas enters a tavern]
Barabbas: Here's a fine sight. Six weeks and nobody's moved!
-- Anthony Quinn (as Barabbas) in Barabbas (1961)
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Year: 1969

Director:
Stanley Kramer
[Young Fabio has been caught making love to Bombolini's daughter, Angela]
Italo Bombolini: I'm going to punish that boy so that he remembers it for the rest of his life.
[In the next scene, Fabio and Angela leave the church, having just been married]
-- Anthony Quinn (as Italo Bombolini) in The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
Lawrence of Arabia
Year: 1962

Director:
David Lean
Auda abu Tayi: [Auda starts the attack on Aqaba with these words] Make God your agent!... Aqaba!
-- Anthony Quinn (as Auda Abu Tayi) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)