Eli Wallach Quotes

• There’s something about a crowd like that that brings a lump to my wallet.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Everyone thinks acting is easy. It’s far from easy, but it’s the most gratifying thing I do.

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

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

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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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  Tags in Self, Movie, Written, Person

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

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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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  Tags in Movie, Underrated, Terrible, Subject

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

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  Tags in Self -Love, Stories

• I always wanted to tell stories and act.

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• I never lost my appetite for acting.

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

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• I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

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• I was an original member of the Actors’ Studio.

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  Tags in Actors, Studio, Member

Eli Wallach (36)

Birth:	7th December, 1915
Death:	24th June, 2014
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Eli Herschel Wallach was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York City, New York. He was an American film, television and stage actor. Trained in stage acting, which he enjoyed doing most, he became "one of the greatest 'character actors' ever to appear on stage and screen," states TCM, with over 90 film credits. For his debut screen performance in Baby Doll, he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Among his other most famous roles are Calvera in The Magnificent Seven, Guido in The Misfits, and Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

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