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"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life"

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Quinn’s praise lands with the blunt force of an actor used to letting a single line carry a scene. “And I loved” is doing more than reporting admiration; it’s staking out allegiance. Not “I respected” or “I learned from,” but love - intimate, risky, unguarded. Coming from a man whose public currency was charisma and toughness, that word reads as a deliberate softening, a confession that art can rearrange your loyalties.

Frank Lloyd Wright, in Quinn’s lifetime, wasn’t just an architect; he was a national character: visionary, egomaniac, American prophet with a draft table. Calling him “the greatest man I have ever met” folds personal encounter into myth-making. The phrasing matters. Quinn doesn’t say Wright designed the greatest buildings; he says Wright was the greatest man. That shifts the emphasis from product to presence, from oeuvre to aura. It’s celebrity language applied to a creator who also behaved like a celebrity - a neat cultural loop where Hollywood recognizes its own kind in another discipline.

The subtext is aspirational and a little defensive: Quinn, often cast as the “ethnic other,” aligning himself with a figure framed as quintessentially American genius is a way of claiming proximity to the country’s highest creative story. It’s also a professional tell. Actors are trained to worship authors of worlds. Wright built worlds you could walk into. Quinn’s line turns an architectural meeting into a conversion narrative: I met him, and my definition of greatness snapped into place.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Quinn, Anthony. (2026, January 15). And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-i-loved-frank-lloyd-wright-i-think-he-was-the-56522/

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Quinn, Anthony. "And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-i-loved-frank-lloyd-wright-i-think-he-was-the-56522/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-i-loved-frank-lloyd-wright-i-think-he-was-the-56522/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001) was a Actor from Mexico.

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