NAMES IN THE NEWS : Quinn ‘Ashamed’ of Being Actor
Anthony Quinn is trying to give up acting.
“I get ashamed of being an actor,” he said with a sad laugh. “It’s the most embarrassing profession in the world. You have to face rejection constantly and you have to have skin like a rhinoceros. . . . I think it is a terrible profession. And I’m trying to quit acting as soon as possible.”
However, at age 74, Quinn, who remembers shining shoes for pennies in Los Angeles 70 years ago, is showing few signs of stopping work.
He has just completed separate films with Kevin Costner and Bo Derek and he is starring in an NBC television special, “Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea,” a remake of the Spencer Tracy film of 32 years ago.
Quinn, who also keeps busy with painting and sculpture, is often best remembered for his stage triumph in the long-running Broadway show “Zorba.”
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