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Eli Wallach

"My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own."

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"My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own."

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A.E. Samaan

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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Eli Wallach
"And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done."

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

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Eli Wallach
"I never lost my appetite for acting."

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Eli Wallach
"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."

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Eli Wallach
"Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down."

Want

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Eli Wallach
"I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda."

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Eli Wallach
"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?"

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Eli Wallach
"Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere."

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Eli Wallach
"The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes."

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Eli Wallach
"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."

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