Eli Wallach Quotes

"And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Deals)

"And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: First)

"All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Time, Mind)

"But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Love, Nothing)

"This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Age, Country)

"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
(Related: Money, Hollywood, Play)

"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
(Related: Independence, Years)

"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
(Related: Makeup, Rest, Will, World)

"When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Music)

"I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Actors)

"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Thought)

"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
(Related: Experience, Character, Play, Theater, Today)

"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
(Related: Money, Gold)

"The big secret in acting is listening to people."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: People, Acting, Listening)

"The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Day, Trouble)

"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
(Related: Movies, Wife, Acting, Being)

"My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: First)

"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Talk)

"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."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Wife, Baby, First, Years)

"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Praise, Pretty)

"I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Being, End, Evil, Hurt)

"Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Want)

"But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: University)

"Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own."
- Eli Wallach

"Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Acting)

"I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Love)

"I always wanted to tell stories and act."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Act)

"I never dreamed I would do Westerns."
- Eli Wallach

"I never lost my appetite for acting."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Acting, Appetite)

"I was an original member of the Actors' Studio."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Actors)

"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
(Related: Medical, Army, End, Hospitals, Years)

"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Learning, Magic)

"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."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Life, People, Needs, Question, Want)

"I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging."
- Eli Wallach
(Related: Acting, Appetite)