Eli Wallach Quotes

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.

Eli Wallach

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• I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Thought
  • Wrong

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • See
  • Silly

• I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Up
  • Funny
  • English

• 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • American
  • Think
  • Proud

• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Important
  • War
  • Man

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Society
  • Words
  • Choose

• I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Why
  • Know

• Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Jealousy

• All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Know
  • Emotional
  • Difficult

• I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Blessed

• There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Financial
  • Debt

• This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Marriage
  • Advertising

• I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Purpose
  • Slavery

• Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Hunting

• In the past, socializing men to become the best killer-protectors led to the survival of the 'fittest.' In the future, with nuclear technology, training killers is more likely to lead to the destruction of everyone.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Future
  • Past

• One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you're walking in heels, you've got time. It's much more attractive.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Time
  • Walking

• The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.

  

  Martin Yan
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Chinese

• For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Birds

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

  

  Eli Wallach