Italian - Actor | May 6, 1895 - August 23, 1926
I became to myself an imaginary figure of great excellence, daring and glamor.
Rudolph Valentino
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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.
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June. June Mathis. No, no one else, ever. She gave me my start. She first, of all people, believed in me.
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The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.
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An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.
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To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.
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A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
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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.
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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.
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I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.
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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.
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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.
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