I don't act to live. I live to act.

- Eli Wallach

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

- Eli Wallach

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

- Eli Wallach

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

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

- Eli Wallach

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

- Eli Wallach

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

- Eli Wallach

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…

- Eli Wallach

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

- Eli Wallach