“A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.”
- Rudolph Valentino
“I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.”
“To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.”
“Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.”
“I became to myself an imaginary figure of great excellence, daring and glamor.”
“The part I like best was my role in 'Blood and Sand.' If I had died, I would have liked to be remembered as an actor by that role - I think it my greatest.”
“An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.”
“I used to go to the stables and fool with the mules. My mother lived in constant fear that I might be brought home with a hoof print on my stomach.”
“I have been deeply touched by the many telegrams, cables and letters that have come to my bedside. It is wonderful to know that I have so many friends and well-wishers both among those it has been my privilege to meet and among the loyal unknown thousands who have seen me on the screen and whom I have never seen at all.”
“My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for him or anyone connected with that science.”