Matthau Quotes

#1. Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.

Jack Black

#2. The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

Alfred Molina

#3. There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

Rumi

#5. The formula is simple: In any given situation, detach and ask, What do I need to do to take care of myself?

Melody Beattie

#6. My dear daughter,
As you will see if ever you receive this, we are alive. . . .

Diana Gabaldon

#7. He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would obey.

Lauren Oliver

#8. Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.

Saint Basil

#9. I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Walter Matthau

#10. My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

Walter Matthau

#11. You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

Walter Matthau

#12. Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

Walter Matthau

#13. If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.

Paul Haggis

#14. To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

Walter Matthau

#15. The future is travelling furiously toward you at incredible speed and will beat you to your destination to surprise you by its resemblance to what you have already seen.

Andrew Durbin

#16. There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!

Walter Matthau

#17. I never worked with Marilyn Monroe, but if she'd lived, I think she would have been all right. She would have been President of the United States.

Walter Matthau

#18. I've always had control of what I played on the air. I have always had very open ears.

Donnie Simpson

#19. Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Samuel Richardson

#20. Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality ... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.

Walter Matthau

#21. I don't, as my mom would say, sweat the small stuff in our relationship. Because when I think of day-to-day irritations that you might have with the one you love, they're nothing compared to the bigger task at hand.

Michelle Obama

#22. Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.

Walter Matthau

#23. It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.

Walter Matthau

#24. I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body.

Walter Matthau

#25. I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.

Walter Matthau

#26. We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

Walter Matthau

#27. The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

Walter Matthau

#28. What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

Dan Deacon

#29. There aren't many contemporary Christian leaders who are both energetic in their condemnation of the crimes of communism and robust in their analysis of the evil of Islamism, but Justin Welby stands out.

Michael Gove

#30. My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.

Walter Matthau

#31. I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.

Jenny Lewis

#32. I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.

Walter Matthau