Alexis Zorba:
Why do the young die? Why does anybody die?
Basil: I don't know.
Alexis Zorba: What's the use of all your damn books if they can't answer that?
Basil: They tell me about the agony of men who can't answer questions like yours.
Alexis Zorba: I spit on this agony!
--Anthony Quinn (as Alexis Zorba) in Zorba the Greek
Basil: I don't know.
Alexis Zorba: What's the use of all your damn books if they can't answer that?
Basil: They tell me about the agony of men who can't answer questions like yours.
Alexis Zorba: I spit on this agony!
--Anthony Quinn (as Alexis Zorba) in Zorba the Greek
Alexis Zorba:
You think too much.That is your trouble.Clever people and grocers, they weigh everything.
--Anthony Quinn (as Alexis Zorba) in Zorba the Greek
--Anthony Quinn (as Alexis Zorba) in Zorba the Greek
Ben Cameron:
You know, if you were on a desert island with that guy and there was nothing but rocks, pretty soon he would have all the rocks moved to his side of the beach.
--Anthony Quinn (as Ben Cameron) in The River's Edge
--Anthony Quinn (as Ben Cameron) in The River's Edge
Bob Kallen:
[referring to his friends] They don't want me to go. If I say the word, they'll kill you.
Sheriff Chris Hamish: You going to say the word?
Bob Kallen: I can do my own killin'.
--Anthony Quinn (as Bob Kallen) in The Ride Back
Sheriff Chris Hamish: You going to say the word?
Bob Kallen: I can do my own killin'.
--Anthony Quinn (as Bob Kallen) in The Ride Back
Bob Kallen:
You afraid of Indians, Hamish?
Sheriff Chris Hamish: I'm respectful of any man who's got enough liquor to make him kill.
Bob Kallen: Seems to me I've heard something like that about you, Kallen.
--Anthony Quinn (as Bob Kallen) in The Ride Back
Sheriff Chris Hamish: I'm respectful of any man who's got enough liquor to make him kill.
Bob Kallen: Seems to me I've heard something like that about you, Kallen.
--Anthony Quinn (as Bob Kallen) in The Ride Back
Italo Bombolini:
[Repeated line] There is no wine.
--Anthony Quinn (as Italo Bombolini) in The Secret of Santa Vittoria
--Anthony Quinn (as Italo Bombolini) in The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Italo Bombolini:
[the town council wants to resist German occupation] Every Santa Vittorian has known for the last thousand years: brave men and good wine - they don't last long.
--Anthony Quinn (as Italo Bombolini) in The Secret of Santa Vittoria
--Anthony Quinn (as Italo Bombolini) in The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Italo Bombolini:
"Mathematically"! If I only had a mind like his. *Math-ay-mat-tee-cally*!
--Anthony Quinn (as Italo Bombolini) in The Secret of Santa Vittoria
--Anthony Quinn (as Italo Bombolini) in The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Johnny:
Nobody knows where I come from, not even me.
--Anthony Quinn (as Johnny McBride) in The Long Wait
--Anthony Quinn (as Johnny McBride) in The Long Wait
