"I was always the hero - with no vices - reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie heroes are less handicapped than the old ones. They are more human. The leading men of silent films were Adonises and Apollos. Today, the hero can even take a poke at the leading lady. In my time, a hero who hit the girl just once would have been out."

(Ramón Novarro, talvolta accreditato anche come Ramón Navarro, nome d'arte di Juan Ramón Gil Samaniego, "latin lover" hollywoodiano; Victoria de Durango, 6 febbraio 1899 – Hollywood, 30 ottobre 1968)