All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

- Eli Wallach

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

- Eli Wallach

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

- Eli Wallach

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

- Eli Wallach

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

- 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 Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

- 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.

- 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.

- Eli Wallach

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

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

- Eli Wallach

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

- Eli Wallach

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

- Eli Wallach

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.

- Eli Wallach

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

- Eli Wallach

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

- Eli Wallach

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

- Eli Wallach

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

- 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.

- Eli Wallach

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

- Eli Wallach

And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

- Eli Wallach