Quotes by Eli Wallach - Page 1

I don't act to live. I live to act.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
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I never lost my appetite for acting.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Appetite
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I never dreamed I would do Westerns.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Dreamed
Westerns
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I always wanted to tell stories and act.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Stories
Wanted
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When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Good And Bad
Ugly
Western Movie
Talk
Shoot
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I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Actors
Members
Studios
Member
Studio
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The big secret in acting is listening to people.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Listening
People
Secret
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Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Food
Cooking
Needs
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My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Firsts
Magnificent
Seven
Western
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Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Slow Down
Slowing
Want
Slow
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The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Men
Powerful
Powerful Friends
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If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Good And Bad
Killing Yourself
Ugly
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I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Evil
Hurt
Hurt Feelings
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All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Long
Mind
Stories
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Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
British
Intelligent
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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Actors
Brando
Wonderful
Fonda
Henry
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I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Acting
Appetite
Challenges
Innovative
Lost
Challenging
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I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Paper
Stories
Way
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Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Cold
Dollars
Fifty
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And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Enjoyed
Misfits
Marilyn
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Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Beauty
Critics
Hangman
Praise
Sarcasm
Sarcastic
Pretty
Neck
Say
Got
Having
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But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Italian
Mentor
Clint
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Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Acting
Easy
Thinking
Gratifying
Thinks
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And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Done
Freeze
Mail
Done Anything More
Batman
Mr
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The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Chinatown
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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.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Horse
Ridden
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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.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Polo
Ponies
Texas
University
Mostly
Ride
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And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Deals
Done
Nuts
Terrible
Underrated
Well Done
Subject
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One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Learning
Audience
Evening
Magic
Things Change
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Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Interviews
Request
Wells
Gotten
Marilyn
Requests
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This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Thirty
Unbelievable
Complex
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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?
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Makeup
Satisfied
World
Fly World Me
Grab
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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.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Age
Four
Silent
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In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Home
Acting
Book
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I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
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Business
Needs
People
Tricky
Life Business People
Question
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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.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Army
Captains
Hospitals
Ran
Years
Administrator
Captain
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So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Money
Beautiful
Gold
Hats
Horse
Red
Shirts
Silk
Teeth
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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.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Independence
Philadelphia
Play
Superb
Years
Master
John
Plays
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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.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Money
Hollywood Films
Play
Ran
Somewhere
Funds
Low
Rush
Whenever
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No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Men
Office
Thinking
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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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Ten
Tennessee
Directed
Doll
Several
Ten Years
Williams
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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.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Movie
Acting
Over It
Stage
Stage Acting
Wife
Again
Mechanical
Net
Says
Tightrope
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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 [Elia] Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
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Baby
Wife
Years
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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.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Character
Light
Play
Theater
Complete
Curtain
Lights
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What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like calendar art next to great paintings. You can't really do very much in movies or in television, but the stage is such an anarchistic medium.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
Art
Calendars
Needs
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