Eli Wallach Quotes
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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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Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
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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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I always wanted to tell stories and act.
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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.
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Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
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I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.
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Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.
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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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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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The big secret in acting is listening to people.
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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.
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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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But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.
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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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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.
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Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.
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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.
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I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.
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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.
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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.
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If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
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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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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
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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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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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I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.
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I never dreamed I would do Westerns.
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The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
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