Montalban Quotes

#1. Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

John Cassavetes

#2. I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I DO have the heart of a lion.

Burt Reynolds

#3. Wasn't he approaching Ricardo Montalban? Probably because there were more interesting things in heaven than Ricardo Montalban.

B.J. Novak

#4. If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Ricardo Montalban

#5. Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

Samuel Richardson

#6. It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

Ricardo Montalban

#7. You're a cop aren't you?
A private detective.
Isn't that the same thing?
The cops guarantee order. All I do is uncover disorder.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

#8. I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.

Tommy Lee Jones

#9. I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

Ricardo Montalban

#10. Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Ricardo Montalban

#11. When I was a child, I used to eat sugar Frosted Flakes with chocolate milk, but I digest, I mean digress.

Stephen Furst

#12. Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

Ricardo Montalban

#13. The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

#14. True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

Ricardo Montalban

#15. Thanks, Pepe. You've put an extra night into my life. I would have spent it just sleeping like an ox, but I've lived it instead. I'm grateful.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

#16. To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

#17. And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

Ricardo Montalban

#18. Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

Margaret Wise Brown

#19. Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

Ricardo Montalban

#20. Some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. (P.221)

Mindy Kaling

#21. Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

Ricardo Montalban

#22. Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

Orhan Pamuk

#23. War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

Hans Von Seeckt

#24. Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.

Ricardo Montalban

#25. What is appealing is the idea of attaining the unattainable and learning from it. Once you obtain a fantasy it becomes a reality, and that reality is not as exciting as your fantasy. Through the fantasies you learn to appreciate your own realities.

Ricardo Montalban

#26. There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

Ricardo Montalban

#27. Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

Ricardo Montalban

#28. My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

Ricardo Montalban

#29. Revenge is a dish best served cold

Ricardo Montalban

#30. The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

John Banville

#31. You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.

Drew Carey

#32. I have the biggest sweet tooth, and just recently a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Original introduced a doughnut inspired by me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon-sugar doughnut with sea salt, drizzled with honey and Nutella.

Reggie Lee

#33. The man had no hair. And he had no ears.

James Dashner

#34. As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet sadness that must be allowed to linger at the end of a great culinary performance.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban