Elaine Stritch Quotes

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

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• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • Feelings
  • Defeat

• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Wife
  • Ideas
  • Nothing

• Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Different
  • Today
  • Intelligence

• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Love
  • Characters
  • Films

• While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Air
  • China

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
  • Environment

• I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Inspiration
  • Role
  • Fighter

• You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Start

• To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Right

• We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Power
  • Plants

• I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Want
  • Film
  • Grandma

• The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Life
  • Baby

• In Hollywood, whenever you do anything, it seems like there's going to be 30 of them. When I did 'Look Who's Talking,' people went: 'Oh but there's going to be this baby movie and that baby movie.' I can't worry about that. I can only do what I want to do.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • People
  • Movie
  • Worry

• I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

  

  John Wooden
  • Time
  • Important
  • Past

• Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Reason
  • Religion
  • Morals

• I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Baby