Because Quote by Walter Matthau

“I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I just had a pacemaker put in.”

Walter Matthau

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To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

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I was playing Russell Long, the senator from Louisiana. I had 12 speech teachers watching me. All the other passengers on the airplane were…

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Doing a movie is like eating five hundred canapes at a cocktail party - you're never really full. You don't feel as though you've…

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I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was…

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I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

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Sometimes it takes me six months before I find out what a line means, even if the writing is superficial... To do a play…

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You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic…

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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

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I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body.

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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty

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