All quotations and phrases said by Walter Matthau including famous quotes

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.
-- Walter Matthau

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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.
-- Walter Matthau

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

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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.
-- Walter Matthau

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My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldn't afford to pay the eight dollars a month.
-- Walter Matthau

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My own feeling is that he was a shyster and that he would become anything to get his way. Like, if he met you, he would be preaching papal supremacy.
-- Walter Matthau

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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
-- Walter Matthau

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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
-- Walter Matthau

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You can't do it with strangers. It takes about five years to get into the ebb and flow. If it's not working after five years, get rid of them.
-- Walter Matthau

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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.
-- Walter Matthau

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