Top 35 Quotes by Eli Wallach

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.

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

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

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

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

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.