Eli Wallach

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

“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.”

“This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.”

“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.”

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

“When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.”

“Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.”

“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.”

“I never lost my appetite for acting.”

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

“And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.”

“What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?”

“The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.”

“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.”

“I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.”