Eli Wallach Quotes

• One thing changes every evening: It’s the audience, and I’m working my magic. I’m always learning from it.

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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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  Tags in Administrator, Medical, Captain, Army

• My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

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  Tags in Self, Western, Performance

• I’ve worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

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  Tags in Wonderful, Actors

• 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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  Tags in Master, Person, Films

• I’ve never lost my appetite for acting; it’s innovative and challenging.

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  Tags in Acting, Challenging

• 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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  Tags in Stage, Acting

• The big secret in acting is listening to people.

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  Tags in Secret, Acting

• 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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  Topics in Age, Country

  Tags in Complex

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

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  Tags in Chinatown, Movie

• 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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  Tags in Hollywood, Films

• 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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  Tags in Self, World

• 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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  Tags in Self, Heard, Music

• 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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  Tags in Celebrity, Interviews

• When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.

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  Tags in Yourself, Shooter

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

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  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Self, Thought, British

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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