| Net Worth: | $10 Million |
|---|---|
| Date of birth: | October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000 (79 years old) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Profession: | Actor |
| Nationality: | American |
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Walter Matthau Net Worth: Walter Matthau was an American actor who had a net worth of $10 million. Walter Matthau was born in New York City, New York in October 1920. He worked briefly as a Yiddish Theater District concession stands cashier. Matthau served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
Quotes
“I was playing Russell Long, the senator from Louisiana. I had 12 speech teachers watching me. All the other passengers on the airplane were speech teachers, and every time I got it wrong, one of the speech teachers would jump up and correct it.”
— Walter Matthau
“I don’t know how you can tell a good actor in the movies. I really don’t. I think you simply just do the part and hope to God that the director has a good cutter and a good editor, and it’ll all get cut and put together so that you look good in it.”
— Walter Matthau
“If you’re sitting around and doing Chekhov and the cat walks in, you must pay attention to the cat. You cannot continue the dialogue of Chekhov without including the cat. So on live television, we’d automatically go into ad-lib gear.”
— Walter Matthau
“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
“I wasn’t handsome. I didn’t have good clothes. I used to wonder why people would hire me when they could get college graduates and Oxford scholars. Then it became apparent that when I got up on a stage, people actually wanted to look at me.”
— Walter Matthau