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

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Source : "Eli Wallach, Whose Career Spanned Six Decades, Dies at 98" by Jacob Combs, www.indiewire.com. June 25, 2014.

Eli Wallach

“Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.”
“Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.”
“My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.”
“He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.”
“You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.”
“I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.”
“You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time.”
“We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.”

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