Words matter. These are the best Eli Wallach Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Well, I’ve maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I’m gonna do my own.
But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.
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?
When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.
I’ve worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
I never lost my appetite for acting.
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.
I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn’t hurt a fly.
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.
When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.
This country has a complex about age. It’s unbelievable. If you’re over thirty, you’ve had it in this country.
And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I’ve ever done.
I’ve never lost my appetite for acting; it’s innovative and challenging.
The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.
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.
One thing changes every evening: It’s the audience, and I’m working my magic. I’m always learning from it.
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.
My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
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.
Everyone thinks acting is easy. It’s far from easy, but it’s the most gratifying thing I do.
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.
The big secret in acting is listening to people.
I was an original member of the Actors’ Studio.
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.
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.
