Walter Matthau famous quotes

05-13-2025

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

#Funny #Life #Hilarious
I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
-- Walter Matthau

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

#Over You #World #Lips
It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.
-- Walter Matthau

#Easy #Nobody Knows #Who You Are
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
-- Walter Matthau

#Book #Writing #Together
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

#Advice #Stubborn #Bitter
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

#Nice #White #Giving
To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.
-- Walter Matthau

#Successful #Needs #Break
I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body.
-- Walter Matthau

#Body #Talent #Fart
I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.
-- Walter Matthau

#Art #Monday #Couple
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

#Couple #Personality #Actors
I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.
-- Walter Matthau

#Funny Relationship #Wife #Mind
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

#Father #Thinking #Catholic
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

#Mother #Eight #Pay
The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty
-- Walter Matthau

#Girl #Firsts #Bed

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