Eli Wallach

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.

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.