Eli Wallach Quotes

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• The big secret in acting is listening to people.

  Eli Wallach

  People, Secret, Listening

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

  Eli Wallach

  Ugly, Good And Bad, Killing Yourself

  "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

  Eli Wallach

  Beauty, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Eli Wallach

  Business, People, Needs

  "R.I.P. Eli Wallach (1915-2014): Watch Oscar Acceptance Speech, Career Profile, Movie Clips & More" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 25, 2014.

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

  Eli Wallach

  Ugly, Good And Bad, Western Movie

  "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

  Eli Wallach

  Food, Cooking, Needs

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

  Eli Wallach

  Hurt, Evil, Hurt Feelings

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

  Eli Wallach

  Powerful, Men, Powerful Friends

  "Fictional character: Don Altobello". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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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.

  Eli Wallach

  Men, Thinking, Office

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• I don't act to live. I live to act.

  Eli Wallach

  "Eli Wallach, Whose Career Spanned Six Decades, Dies at 98" by Jacob Combs, www.indiewire.com. June 25, 2014.

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• I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

  Eli Wallach

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Eli Wallach

  Beautiful, Money, Horse

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

  Eli Wallach

  Italian, Mentor

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• 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

  Years, Play, Philadelphia

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Eli Wallach

  Book, Home, Acting

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

  Eli Wallach

  Learning, Magic, Evening

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Money, Play, Hollywood Films

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

  Eli Wallach

  Firsts, Seven, Magnificent

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

  Eli Wallach

  Thinking, Acting, Easy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Eli Wallach

  Movie, Wife, Acting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Eli Wallach

  Army, Years, Captains

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Eli Wallach

  Challenges, Acting, Lost

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Eli Wallach

  Art, Needs, Calendars

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

  Eli Wallach

  Want, Slow Down, Slowing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Eli Wallach

  Long, Mind, Stories

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