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."

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

"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."