Eli Wallach movie quotes

“Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.”
Eli Wallach

“- Cacopoulos: Wait a minute, wait a minute! Fifteen years, I've dreamed of this moment. Fifteen years! Every night. Every night!
- Cat Stevens: And so?
- Cacopoulos: There's always music. The music of violins. A slow, sweet... waltz. I want music!”

Eli Wallach - Cacopoulos
Terence Hill - Cat Stevens

“Money corrupts men, it softens him. So to keep you young and pure, I think I'll take everything.”

Eli Wallach - Cacopoulos

“- Hutch Bessy: Cacopoulos. What kind of a name is that?
- Cacopoulos: A Greek name. My grandfather was a Greek. He was a Greek, like Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, Homer. And like Ulysses, he had to keep traveling. He never suffered from homesickness, my grandfather.”
Bud Spencer - Hutch Bessy
Eli Wallach - Cacopoulos

“There's only one kind of peace I know of, Marshal. That's the kind my brother's got.”
Eli Wallach - Charlie Gant

“Mrs. Meighan, I'm a Sicilian! You know, we're a very old race of people, an ancient race, and ancient races aren't trustful races by nature.”
Eli Wallach - Silva Vacarro

“- Silva Vacarro: You're a very delicate woman, Mrs. Meighan.
- Baby Doll: Delicate? Me?
- Silva Vacarro: There isn't much of you; but, what there is - is choice. Delectable, I might say.”
Eli Wallach - Silva Vacarro
Carroll Baker - Baby Doll Meighan

“I believe in ghosts. In haunted places. In places haunted by the people that occupy them with hearts overrun by demons of hate and destruction.”
Eli Wallach - Silva Vacarro

“- Baby Doll: Sometimes I don't know where to go or what to do.
- Silva Vacarro: Well, that's not uncommon. People enter this world without instruction.”
Carroll Baker - Baby Doll Meighan
Eli Wallach - Silva Vacarro

“- Baby Doll: I'll be 20 tomorrow. Tomorrow is Election Day and my Birthday and the day that Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President for his first term.
- Silva Vacarro: It's a great day for the country for both reasons.”
Carroll Baker - Baby Doll Meighan
Eli Wallach - Silva Vacarro

“- Silva Vacarro: I find you different this evening in some way.
- Baby Doll: Never mind that.
- Silva Vacarro: Grown up suddenly.
- Baby Doll: I feel cool and rested for the first time in my life. That's the way I feel. Rested and cool.”
Eli Wallach - Silva Vacarro
Carroll Baker - Baby Doll Meighan

“- Baby Doll: I feel so weak. Oh, my head is buzzy.
- Silva Vacarro: Fuzzy?
- Baby Doll: Hmm. Fuzzy and buzzy. My head is swingin' round. Must have been that swingin' that done it.”
Carroll Baker - Baby Doll Meighan
Eli Wallach - Silva Vacarro

“- Baby Doll: Excuse me, Mr. Vacarro, but I wouldn't dream of eatin' a nut which a man had cracked in his mouth.
- Silva Vacarro: You've got many refinements.
- Baby Doll: Thank you.”
Carroll Baker - Baby Doll Meighan
Eli Wallach - Silva Vacarro

Say a man and a woman both need something to sleep in and both go to the same men's pajama department. The man says to the salesman, "I just need bottoms", and the woman says, "I just need a top". They look at each other and that's the "meet cute".
Eli Wallach - Arthur Abbott

“I must accept my age, and grow my olives and tomatoes.”
Eli Wallach - Don Altobello

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

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

“- Leon B. Little: I wanna get a hundred of those coppers.
- Harry Doyle: There's only fifty Leon.
- Leon B. Little: So? I'll shoot 'em all twice!”
Eli Wallach - Leon B. Little
Burt Lancaster - Harry Doyle

“- Dr. Herbert A. Morrison: Would you like a cup of coffee?
- Claudia Draper: Not unless there's Thorazine in it.
- Dr. Herbert A. Morrison: Sorry, only milk and sugar.
- Claudia Draper: Pass.”
Eli Wallach - Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“In the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.”
Eli Wallach - Arthur Abbott

“- Leon B. Little: How can you live in a hell hole like this? If I lived in a place like this I'd kill myself in an hour.
- Belle: You've been here 45 minutes.”
Eli Wallach - Leon B. Little
Alexis Smith - Belle

“- Don Altobello: Treachery is everywhere.
- Michael Corleone: You still have your fingers on the strings, even now.”
Eli Wallach - Don Altobello
Al Pacino - Michael Corleone

“I'm wondering why a beautiful girl like you would go to a strangers' house for their Christmas Vacation, and on top of that spend Saturday night with an old cock-up like me.”
Eli Wallach - Arthur Abbott

“Surrender's for wimps! I vote we die!”
Eli Wallach - Leon B. Little

“The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.”
Eli Wallach - Don Altobello