Top 35 Cesar Romero Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A joke a day keeps the gloom away!”

— Cesar Romero

2. “Sometimes, I wonder what I’m doing here.”

— Cesar Romero

3. “They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.”

— Cesar Romero

4. “It’s the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.”

— Cesar Romero

5. “In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts.”

— Cesar Romero

6. “We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.”

— Cesar Romero

7. “I thought it was very humanitarian of Sean Penn and Madonna to marry each other. That way, they make only two people miserable instead of four.”

— Cesar Romero

8. “Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.”

— Cesar Romero

9. “Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren’t, you left town and made up an excuse.”

— Cesar Romero

10. “It’s a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.”

— Cesar Romero

11. “I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies – I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.”

— Cesar Romero

12. “George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.”

— Cesar Romero

13. “If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine’s Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine’s Day. I said no.”

— Cesar Romero

14. “If my father’s business hadn’t gone broke, I’d be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!”

— Cesar Romero

15. “I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.”

— Cesar Romero

16. “The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.”

— Cesar Romero

17. “Well, you know what they say in Hollywood – the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.”

— Cesar Romero

18. “I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn’t, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn’t very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.”

— Cesar Romero

19. “I’m 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down – at least he did until he dropped dead.”

— Cesar Romero

20. “All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.”

— Cesar Romero

21. “When someone’s acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you’re watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.”

— Cesar Romero

22. “They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.”

— Cesar Romero

23. “I can’t date women my own age any more – I hate going to cemeteries.”

— Cesar Romero

24. “People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.”

— Cesar Romero

25. “The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.”

— Cesar Romero

26. “I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.”

— Cesar Romero

27. “That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone mainstream.”

— Cesar Romero

28. “I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.”

— Cesar Romero

29. “I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.”

— Cesar Romero

30. “Because of my age and because there’s more work on the small screen. What it’s missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor’s selfish point of view.”

— Cesar Romero

31. “Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father’s business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.”

— Cesar Romero

32. “I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.”

— Cesar Romero

33. “But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.”

— Cesar Romero

34. “I’m satisfied to go in at the bottom – that’s the best way to learn what things are all about.”

— Cesar Romero

35. “I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.”

— Cesar Romero