Important Quote by Elaine Stritch Download Open image “Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.” — Elaine Stritch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Important Inspirational Knows Lying Theatre Truth
When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can. — Chubby Checker Copy Share Image
The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness… — Norbert Leo Butz Copy Share Image
Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take. — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it… — Carol Channing Copy Share Image
I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
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… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
