The phrases of Fernando Fernán Gómez have accompanied an entire generation, and these same phrases help other generations to understand what he was like and what his life was like.
Fernando Fernán Gómez was a intellectual and man of letters from the end of the 20th century who had no problem saying “Fuck!” if necessary.
Fernando Fernan Gomez
The phrases of Fernando Fernán Gómez tell us about this well-known novelist, playwright, actor, screenwriter and film, theater and television director. He was born in Peru in 1921 and died in Spain in 2007. He was an essential man in the Spanish cinematographic and literary scene, becoming a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
Undoubtedly, What has also remained of him, apart from his works, was his character, everyone remembers that one “Fuck you!” That is why today we bring phrases and reflections where we can see his thoughts, his personality and understand his life.
Phrases and reflections
Long before social networks made anything go viral and, among them, some of Fernando Fernán Gómez's legendary phrases reached other generations, he himself left in writing mythical phrases and reflections like the ones below:
Your position on work
1. «Work is a punishment. The Bible says so. God imposed it and, as far as we know, he has not lifted it.
2. "Success and failure are not facts, but sensations."
3. «I am very capable of doing nothing. I am not one of those people who say that they need to be working because otherwise they will not be fulfilled. If I had been heir, I would have been perfectly fine doing nothing.
4. "The journalist must write at high speed because otherwise he runs the risk that, when he reaches the last line, the first is no longer relevant."
5. "I left the theater because the spectators bothered me."
6. "I would like to only write, not act."
7. "In the profession of an actor, success or failure usually comes very much accompanied by chance."
8. "The actor is not a man who pretends, but a man who is sincere without fear of ridicule."
About life
9. «It is a rare and admirable quality that some people have to know when they should behave as secondary people. And it is an unforgivable quality that others have to stubbornly become protagonists even in the most inappropriate moments.
10. «Young people have absolute ignorance of what is going to happen to them. We old people have a firm certainty about what happened to us.
11. "They tell us that fools don't suffer in life. Wouldn't you like to be a fool?"
12. «I have a reputation for being grumpy. I recognize it and at the same time I regret it. In any case, I am no longer of age to correct myself.
13. "Yes, sir, unfortunately I'm a rude person. I'm not like you. Please leave me alone! Leave me alone! Then stop admiring me! Go to hell, go to hell!"
14. "My life project has been to live on income, but I have not achieved it."
15. «I'm not a bad mood. "I have a variable character and some promptness that is not dangerous."
16. "You have to try to make big ideas seem small, superficial, everyday."
17. «Cinema is a vehicle of expression, but I am not very sure that it is an art.»
18. "Time puts everyone in their place, but if you send some to hell, then you move forward."
Phrases about politics
19. «There is a good chance that the anarchist lifestyle is not viable. And maybe a few that it is. But either way, we can't prove it. There is no country, no religion, no lost corner of the Earth where the experiment is taking place. And when in some lost corner a group of crazy people dared to try, they were exterminated with blood and fire. And the blood and the fire came from both the right and the left.
20. "In Spain, not only do those who command not function badly, but also those who obey."
21. "What I feel for anarchy is a tremendous curiosity; a hope. All other political options don't satisfy me; they're based on deception."
Relationships and women
22. "I believe that a friendship can perfectly exist between a man and a woman, as long as that man is not me."
23. «I like to surround myself with attractive women and, among them, I prefer the most attractive one; An educated woman can help me teach me medieval philosophy, but nothing more.
24. «Towards the middle of my life, a beautiful and very intelligent woman with whom I had had few days of intimacy told me, looking at me with her unforgettable gaze: You cannot be destroyed, Fernando. You are already destroyed.
25. «Kind women usually have no hook; "The ones that have it are the ones that can destroy you, like Dietrich."
