Eli Wallach Quotes

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

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I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

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When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.

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There's a scene in Baby Doll where we're sitting around the dining table that was played in toto. It was wonderful because it had an alive quality.

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All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

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Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

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The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.

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What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world Will I ever be satisfied Can't I ever just rest

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I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

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When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

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But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

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John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

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My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

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The whole thing was chaotic. Everyone spoke a different language. I knew a little French, so that's how I conversed with Leone.

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Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

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From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

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Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.

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The big secret in acting is listening to people.

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Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.

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I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

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I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

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And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

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And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

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I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

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I always wanted to tell stories and act.

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