D.A. Wallach Quotes

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.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

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

Those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

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.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

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

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."

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.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

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.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.

I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything works.

Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.

I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you.

The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.