Walter Matthau Quotes

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• I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.
• Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.
• You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.
• Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would…
• My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight…
• The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty
• I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
• Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the…
• I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art…
• I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body.
• To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.
• My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
• I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm,…
• It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.
• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

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