Eli Wallach Quotes

I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.

I'm constantly trying to figure out my life and what's next. I'm never satisfied with what I have.

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

Your people do not seem to like the place where they live and always want to be on the move going someplace else.

If you desire, you are restless.

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life

I ain't ever satisfied.

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

I like any place that isn't here.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll​ start hearing things or meeting other people.

Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.