Elaine Stritch Quotes
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I mention I'm going home, and I'm a star immediately! This used to happen with my boyfriends - as soon as I'd say, 'I gotta go home now,' they fell in love.
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I never thought about living in New York. I just thought it was great.
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There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.
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These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.
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Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split.
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My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.
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As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
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I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York.
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There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book.
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I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'
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I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have.
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I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.
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There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.
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If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.
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I'm funny when I want to be. And I'm even funny when I don't want to be.
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Betty White is probably a very nice woman.
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I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.
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I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
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The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?
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You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
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I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.
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Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
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I love New York. I went to New York to become an actress, and I did it. And I won all the awards known to man. And I'm happy. And I came home. I came, I saw, I conquered. And it feels great.
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There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful.