Elaine Stritch Quotes
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I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
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Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'
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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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New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'
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For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.
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I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.
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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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Talent is seductive.
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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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There are a lot of things I do that I don't want to, but I have to. It's truly an emotional need for me to perform.
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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'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.
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I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
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My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.
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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.
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Fans recognize me all over the place. But the second you need anything, they're never around! They're like the police!
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Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.
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I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
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You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
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There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.
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I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.
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I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.
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Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.
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I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.