Character 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…

— Walter Matthau

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

— Walter Matthau

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

— Walter Matthau

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…

— Walter Matthau

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

— Walter Matthau

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

— Walter Matthau

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

— Walter Matthau

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

— Walter Matthau

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

— Walter Matthau

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

— Walter Matthau

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

— Walter Matthau

The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty

— Walter Matthau