Quotes

[on how he would play a character] I just believed it.

[on appearing in a play in University] I saw the play's poster with my name on it, and said, "What the hell am I doing here? I'm losing time."

People like and enjoy a superhero, a man bigger than life. Then there is the other type of actor--and that's me.

I'd get bored if I'd have to be good-looking all the time. I would prefer to work in a bank.

During my first year in Italy, I made mainly intellectual movies where I was bored to death.

What I want to do is to become the part--to leave Tomas Milian wherever he is and become the character.

[gesturing to torso] In here . . . in here, is everything, from A to Z. Okay? I could be . . . a good person, I could be an evil son of a bitch, I could be anything. I could be funny, I could be very dramatic, I can make you cry, if you want.

I don't like to intellectualize what I do. Because the intellect . . . it was ruining my instinct. And I live out of instinct.

[on his appearances in "political" spaghetti westerns] I didn't care, really, about politics. I was ignorant as Cuchillo [from The Big Gundown (1967) and Run, Man, Run (1968)] was. That's why I was so good at [that] stuff. The actors are being used, so . . . you don't have to be political, you have to be like [an] ideological whore.