Eli Wallach Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.
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What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.
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I think that, generally, a woman brings in luck for her husband after marriage, but in my case, my husband is lucky for me.
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I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
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The big secret in acting is listening to people.
