Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don’t just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you’re not...

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now.

Now, Marlon and I – for some reason, even today – even today, we can’t say two words to each other. We really can’t talk to each other. You know, I say to him –...

Oh, yes, my grandfather was Irish, and he was – he was with a visiting bunch of Irish that came to fight in the revolution in Mexico.

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

I mean, you know, actors lives – you’re forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They’re forgotten after awhile.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I’m working on. And I think that’s going to make me last longer than me.

No parent is there forever. So I won’t be here forever with these kids.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn’t be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you’re an Indian, so I played Indians.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn’t working, he’s a bum.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who – he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

And I had known Peter O’Toole before in London. And I’d liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the...

Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You’ll never get that money from me.

First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that’s normal. I understand that. I don’t quarrel with that.

Well, I mean, bread, I mean, I’ve got to have bread too to live.

I didn’t intend to become an actor.