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]


--Eli Wallach (as Tuco) in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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

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!


--Eli Wallach (as Tuco) in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Gay: What's eatin' you?
Guido: Just my life.


--Eli Wallach (as Guido) in The Misfits

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

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

Calvera: If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.


--Eli Wallach (as Calvera) in The Magnificent Seven

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

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

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