Elaine Stritch Quotes
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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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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 do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
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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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I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.
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Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing.
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Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'
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The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.
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Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.
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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 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 think being boring is just the worst sin of all time.
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I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!
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Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.
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I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
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I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
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This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.
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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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I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.
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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 to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
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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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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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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.