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• I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.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

• Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Rest

• France can certainly accommodate foreign people on its soil long-term, those with foreign citizenship... as long as they respect French laws and French values, which is often a problem on the immigration issue. It's not really a problem with Israel on this topic.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • Long
  • Respect

• The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Seeing
  • Reactions

• I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Worked
  • Impressions
  • Insist

• The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

  

  Myles Munroe
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Discovery

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

  

  Eli Wallach