Top 100 Wallach Quotes
#1. The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
Adam Baldwin
#2. Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!
Kate Winslet
#3. The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.
Eli Wallach
#4. I always wanted to tell stories and act.
Eli Wallach
#5. One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
Otto Wallach
#6. It was incredible, the way that people kept on going, whether they were dying of pancreatic cancer or drug addiction or the apocalypse itself.
Tommy Wallach
#7. Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.
Eli Wallach
#8. But her role had changed; she was now available for marriage and her primary task was to find a mate. As Florence and Hugh Bell's daughter, she was expected to make an excellent match. And if there wasn't one here, at least she would learn how to conduct herself for the chase.
Janet Wallach
#9. I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.
Eli Wallach
#10. the fundamental rule of life: Things were never so bad that they couldn't get worse.
Tommy Wallach
#11. I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.
Eli Wallach
#12. I think that kids have a knack for detecting happiness, but they lose it as they get older. They have to. Otherwise they'd notice how unhappy everybody else is, and they'd never be able to be happy themselves.
Tommy Wallach
#13. Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
Joan Wallach Scott
#14. The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Apple; it was a bunch of people. The building of the right team is an art in and of its own right.
D.A. Wallach
#15. Life would take everything from you eventually. So who would be so stupid to leave someone they loved by choice?
Tommy Wallach
#16. Instead of a few months, the doctors gave him a year. That was how you could be lucky without being lucky. That was how you could be a winner and still lose.
Tommy Wallach
#17. All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.
Eli Wallach
#18. If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you.
D.A. Wallach
#19. Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident
Tommy Wallach
#20. John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.
Eli Wallach
#21. People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.
Tommy Wallach
#22. Do you think it's better to fail at something worthwhile, or to succeed at something meaningless?
Tommy Wallach
#23. The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
Eli Wallach
#24. Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
Otto Wallach
#25. Young people feel things so deeply, don't they?' she said quietly, almost to herself. 'Everything's happening for the first time.
Tommy Wallach
#26. I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Eli Wallach
#27. She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them.
Tommy Wallach
#29. Love is the exception to the law of diminishing returns.
Tommy Wallach
#30. (the difference between coldness and coolness was, after all, simply a matter of degree).
Tommy Wallach
#31. In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.
Eli Wallach
#32. I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
Eli Wallach
#33. I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything works.
D.A. Wallach
#34. You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.
D.A. Wallach
#35. You didn't win the game of life by losing the least. That would be one of those-what were they called again?-Pyrrhic victories. Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later.
Tommy Wallach
#36. What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like calendar art next to great paintings. You can't really do very much in movies or in television, but the stage is such an anarchistic medium.
Eli Wallach
#37. He thought he would choke to death on it, on the harsh truth he'd been trying to ignore his entire life: that no matter how bad he wanted it or how he hard he tried to get it, he would never be worthy of anyone's love.
Tommy Wallach
#38. There's a word in Portuguese that my dad wrote about in one of his books: saudade.
It's the sadness you feel for something that isn't gone yet, but will be. The sadness of lost causes. The sadness of being alive.
Tommy Wallach
#39. Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.
Janet Wallach
#40. There are seven and a half billion people on this earth - somebody's got to get sucked into a vortex.
Jenine Wallach
#41. One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
Eli Wallach
#42. Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.
Eli Wallach
#43. She'd prepared herself for any amount of awkwardness or anger, but no for a hug that was probably the longest she'd ever received from a boy, one of those hugs that made it clear how much the person hugging you was in need of a hug, or believed YOU to be in need of a hug.
Tommy Wallach
#44. Peter put his arm around her waist and pulled her tight to his side. Eliza had already noticed that he did this whenever he was about to disagree wit her; it was yet another manifestation of his just-shy-of-ridiculous tenderness.
Tommy Wallach
#45. When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.
Eli Wallach
#46. This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.
Eli Wallach
#47. It occurred to Anita that hatred and dislike and even indifference were all luxuries, born of the mistaken belief that anything could last forever.
Tommy Wallach
#48. You don't wanna go out of this world with regrets. If there's some-
thing you want to do, you do it. You take this life by the balls and you tell it that you existed.
Tommy Wallach
#49. And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.
Eli Wallach
#50. As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
Otto Wallach
#51. The big secret in acting is listening to people.
Eli Wallach
#52. Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless
Tommy Wallach
#53. And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.
Eli Wallach
#54. But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.
Eli Wallach
#55. I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.
Eli Wallach
#56. No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.
Eli Wallach
#57. Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
Eli Wallach
#58. Today was just another shit day in a life that sometimes felt like a factory specializing in the construction of shit days.
Tommy Wallach
#59. I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.
Eli Wallach
#60. The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.
D.A. Wallach
#61. As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
Otto Wallach
#62. I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."
D.A. Wallach
#63. May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
Otto Wallach
#64. So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.
Eli Wallach
#65. I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.
D.A. Wallach
#66. And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
Eli Wallach
#67. 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.
Eli Wallach
#68. From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.
Eli Wallach
#69. When change loses its magic, then there really isn't anything left to live for.
Tommy Wallach
#70. One of the big challenges I've thought about in making record is that the role of computers has become so inescapable and computers offer so many possibilities for creativity, but they also make you lazy.
D.A. Wallach
#71. I'm not a super prolific creator, I don't make stuff everyday, and I don't have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head. I think I had years and years of pent-up aesthetic ideas that I wanted to express.
D.A. Wallach
#72. I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
Eli Wallach
#73. In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
Otto Wallach
#74. The popular shall become unpopular. The freak shall inherit the Earth.
Tommy Wallach
#75. 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?
Eli Wallach
#76. Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.
Eli Wallach
#77. The reason I invest in technology is it's the only work humans do that actually is creative. All other types of economic activity are just moving money from one pool to another, whereas technology is what allows us to create value out of thin air.
D.A. Wallach
#78. I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.
D.A. Wallach
#79. Andy was speechless. He'd forgotten that there was actually another person in the room- someone with her own needs and desires and shit to freak out about. But it was funny, or better than funny, that sometimes two people could be feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time.
Tommy Wallach
#80. Fiction described reality better than non-fiction.
Tommy Wallach
#81. Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.
Eli Wallach
#82. To leverage those things that are common to everybody, and to present them in a way that's sort of naked, is more courageous in art than constantly trying to be evasively too cool.
D.A. Wallach
#83. It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.
D.A. Wallach
#84. As a little kid, Peter had figured that once you reached a certain age, somebody just handed you all the knowledge you'd need in order to be an adult. But it turned out that wasn't how it worked.
Tommy Wallach
#85. In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.
D.A. Wallach
#86. On the other side of the rock, some words were carved: AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH
Tommy Wallach
#87. The end of the world revealed the futility of all commemorative plaques.
Tommy Wallach
#88. Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.
Eli Wallach
#89. She was miserable because she kept hoping things would change. If she could eradicate the hope, she could eradicate the sadness.
Tommy Wallach
#90. My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
Eli Wallach
#91. intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein Autobiographical Notes
Joel Wallach
#92. Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck
Eli Wallach
#94. Paris? People always say Paris is the shit. "Yes, I've never understood the American obsession with that city. The food is actually quite terrible on the whole, and the people can be rather awful if you don't speak the language.
Tommy Wallach
#95. But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.
Eli Wallach
#96. This is the twenty-first century. The oceans are rising. Mad dictators have access to nuclear weapons. Corporatism and the dumbing down of the media have destroyed the very foundations of democracy. Anyone who isn't afraid is a moron." There
Tommy Wallach
#97. 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.
Eli Wallach
#98. I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.
D.A. Wallach
#100. He was the kind of guy who had a unique facial expression dedicated to thinking.
Tommy Wallach
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