The big secret in acting is listening to people.
From Eli Wallach
So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.
My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.
I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.
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.
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.
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