Walter 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. Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.

Bob Dylan

#4. 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

#5. Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Matthieu Ricard

#6. When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

Salma Hayek

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

Walter Matthau

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

Walter Matthau

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.

Philippe Petit

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

Walter Matthau

#13. Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future. It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected. In short, campaigns may be the closest thing we have to democracy itself.

Gloria Steinem

#14. My dad lived on Sunset Boulevard for a couple of years as a waiter, and he said he'd do a different character every time somebody sat down, just to get some practice.

Lily James

#15. Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let's embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people.

Barack Obama

#16. Some people are born with an ear for music, some people are born with a talent for drawing, some people...have a built-in radar that tells them where a comma needs to go in a sentence.

Krystal Sutherland

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

Walter Matthau

#18. I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Dinaw Mengestu

#19. I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.

Brigitte Bardot

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

Walter Matthau

#22. I have no interest in anything so frivolous as the bona fide religion or mankind's pathetic debate over whose version of the church is correct. Circular arguments over the semantics of faith hold no interest for me. Those are questions answered only through death!

M.ralte

#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. It's better to not think about the night and how badly I want her, so I let it sort of stew there in my mind instead. And when I get her all to myself again, I'll be grateful just to see her smile, just to have her with me.
Even if it's only for one more night.

Amanda Lance

#29. It was Hiss who won by stamping on another's foot, and he spent the meal staring at Poppy and missing his mouth with his spoon.

Laini Taylor

#30. How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all ... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, I was wrong.

B.C. Forbes

#31. 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

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

Walter Matthau