Eli Wallach Quotes - Page 2

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• Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

  Eli Wallach

  Character, Light, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 [Elia] Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

  Eli Wallach

  Baby, Years, Wife

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Eli Wallach

  Long, Mind, Stories

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• What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like calendar art next to great paintings. You can't really do very much in movies or in television, but the stage is such an anarchistic medium.

  Eli Wallach

  Art, Needs, Calendars

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• Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

  Eli Wallach

  Interviews, Wells, Request

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

  Eli Wallach

  Age, Four, Silent

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• 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?

  Eli Wallach

  Makeup, World, Satisfied

  Eli Wallach (2014). “The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

  Eli Wallach

  Stories, Paper, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.

  Eli Wallach

  Dollars, Fifty, Cold

  "Batman: The Duo Defy". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.

  Eli Wallach

  Actors, Members, Studios

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Eli Wallach

  Texas, Ponies, Polo

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

  Eli Wallach

  Nuts, Done, Terrible

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

  Eli Wallach

  Actors, Wonderful, Brando

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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