Eli Wallach Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.”

“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.”

“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.”

“But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.”

“All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.”

“I never dreamed I would do Westerns.”

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

“My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.”

“I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.”