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Eli Wallach
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Eli Wallach
Age: 98 †
Born: 1915
Born: December 7
Died: 2014
Died: June 24
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New York
Eli Herschel Wallach
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I don't act to live. I live to act.
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All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.
Eli Wallach
The big secret in acting is listening to people.
Eli Wallach
But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.
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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
I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.
Eli Wallach
And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.
Eli Wallach
My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
Eli Wallach
I never dreamed I would do Westerns.
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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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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
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Eli Wallach
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.
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The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
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Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.
Eli Wallach
Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.
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Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.
Eli Wallach
I've never lost my appetite for acting it's innovative and challenging.
Eli Wallach
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 [Elia] Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
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