Top 35 Quotes by Eli Wallach

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?

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

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

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.