Elaine Stritch Quotes
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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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You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.
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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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I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time, and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.
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I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
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I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.
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I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.
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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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I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.
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My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.
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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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Betty White is probably a very nice woman.
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Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
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I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.
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When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.
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I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
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When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd rather be in Detroit, Michigan, than Lenox Hill.
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I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world!
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New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'
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I'm loaded with talent.
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If I see someone saying the rosary in the wings, I know they've got talent.
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I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do.
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I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.
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All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.