Elaine Stritch Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer.…
• And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!
• I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from…
• For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork
• This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.
• 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…
• I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh,…
• The terrifying thing in my life is that I am just an actress. And I have to keep pushing it and getting approval, approval, approval…
• I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world!
• Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start…
• Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.
• I’d like to discover life. Quite frankly I don’t know how to be happy. I have not a clue. I only serve — and I…
• I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
• New York is like a disco, but without the music
• If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.
• There's something exciting about being afraid.
• You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

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