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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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I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
Elaine Stritch
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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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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.
Elaine Stritch -
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.
Elaine Stritch -
Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.
Elaine Stritch -
I like glasses so I can go out without my makeup. Just grab your coat and get your hat and go.
Elaine Stritch -
All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.
Elaine Stritch
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Talent is seductive.
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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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My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.
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Isn't this fantastic, what a star I am?
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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 do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
Elaine Stritch
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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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I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.
Elaine Stritch -
All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.
Elaine Stritch -
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.
Elaine Stritch -
You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening.
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When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.
Elaine Stritch
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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 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.
Elaine Stritch -
I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.
Elaine Stritch -
Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.
Elaine Stritch