Walter Matthau quotes
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“My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.”
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“I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.”
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“Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.”
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“It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.”
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“We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?”
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“Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.”
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“I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.”
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“To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.”
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“I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body.”
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“I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.”
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“Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.”
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“I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.”
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“You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.”
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“My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.”
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“The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty”
-- Walter Matthau
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