Quotes from Walter Matthau

When I was about eighteen, I saw myself as a rather sensitive, delicate, poetic, romantic figure. And then I got into the Civilian Conservation Corps and into the army, and I started smoking and drinking and being tough and getting muscles, and I had a whole different image of myself.

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.

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.

Working for the screen is almost like being in the Army: you set your mind to it, and you do it.

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!

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.

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.