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.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.