Eli Wallach Quotes

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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,…
• 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…
• I don't act to live. I live to act.
• All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.
• And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
• And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.
• Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.
• I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
• When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
• Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.
• My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
• 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…
• But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.
• I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.
• 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…
• Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.
• When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.
• The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.
• I never lost my appetite for acting.
• And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

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