78 Quotes by Eli Wallach

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

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

The big secret in acting is listening to people

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

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.

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.

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio