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Film Quotes by Eli Wallach

43 quotes
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Year: 1966

Director:
Sergio Leone
Blondie: You may run the risks, my friend, but I do the cutting. We cut down my percentage - uh, cigar? - liable to interfere with my aim.
Tuco: But if you miss you had better miss very well. Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco. Nothing!
[Chuckles, bites cigar]
Lord Jim
Year: 1965

Director:
Richard Brooks
Brierly: Could you do what he did?
The French Officer: Who knows? Under certain conditions, fear will come to any man. It's always there, waiting for us...
-- Eli Wallach (as The General) in Lord Jim (1965)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Year: 1966

Director:
Sergio Leone
Jackson: The name on the grave is... water
Tuco: In the cemetary, okay, in the grave okay! But it must have a name or a number on it! Talk, damn you!
The Misfits
Year: 1961

Director:
John Huston
Gay: What's eatin' you?
Guido: Just my life.
-- Eli Wallach (as Guido) in The Misfits (1961)
The Magnificent Seven
Year: 1960

Director:
John Sturges
Calvera: [dying - to Chris] You came back - for a place like this. Why? A man like you. Why?
-- Eli Wallach (as Calvera) in The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Magnificent Seven
Year: 1960

Director:
John Sturges
Calvera: Generosity... that was my first mistake. I leave these people a little bit extra, and then they hire these men to make trouble. It shows you, sooner or later, you must answer for every good deed.
-- Eli Wallach (as Calvera) in The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Magnificent Seven
Year: 1960

Director:
John Sturges
Calvera: If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.
-- Eli Wallach (as Calvera) in The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Magnificent Seven
Year: 1960

Director:
John Sturges
Calvera: Last month we were in San Juan. Rich town. Sit down. Rich town, much blessed by God. Big church. Not like here - little church, priest comes twice a year. BIG one. You'd think we'd find gold candlesticks. Poor box filled to overflowing. Do you know what we found? Brass candlesticks. Almost nothing in the poor box.
Sidekick: But we took it anyway.
Calvera: I KNOW we took it anyway. I'm trying to show him how little religion some people now have.
-- Eli Wallach (as Calvera) in The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Magnificent Seven
Year: 1960

Director:
John Sturges
Calvera: Now, to business! I could kill you all. You agree?
[Dead silence]
Calvera: Well, you don't disagree!
-- Eli Wallach (as Calvera) in The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Magnificent Seven
Year: 1960

Director:
John Sturges
Calvera: We have a saying here: a thief who steals from a thief is pardoned for one hundred years.
-- Eli Wallach (as Calvera) in The Magnificent Seven (1960)