Elaine Stritch Quotes - Page 2

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• 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 now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, Long, Bells

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• I certainly was not the romantic lead. I couldn't be that, because I was not that good looking. And that is something about Hollywood that I do not like at all. Why can't a woman who is just normally good looking fall in love? I mean, everybody in the movies is so good looking.

  Elaine Stritch

  Falling In Love, Mean, Hollywood

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

  Elaine Stritch

  Theatre, Stranger, Audience

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• I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

  Elaine Stritch

  Looks, Found, Wells

  "Talking Money With -- Elaine Stritch; Just T-bills, Thanks, For A Lady Who Saves" by Geraldine Fabrikant, www.nytimes.com. May 12, 2002.

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• I get sick of saying how hard everything is. It's hard to get up in the morning. Everything's hard. Everything takes effort.

  Elaine Stritch

  Morning, Sick, Effort

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• There's something exciting about being afraid.

  Elaine Stritch

  Exciting, Being Afraid

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• I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.

  Elaine Stritch

  Jobs, Noses, Fine

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• 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.

  Elaine Stritch

  Cameras, Hollywood, Taught

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• I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.

  Elaine Stritch

  Liars, Reviews

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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.

  Elaine Stritch

  Age, Up To You, Aging

  "An 84-Year-Old Wisecracker Keeps Trucking" by Patrick Healy, www.nytimes.com. July 3, 2009.

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• I like to keep active. I've got too much energy not to.

  Elaine Stritch

  Energy, Too Much, Active

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

  Elaine Stritch

  Jail, Long, Telling The Truth

  "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview with Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

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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.

  Elaine Stritch

  Mean, Giving, Firsts

  "Interview: Elaine Stritch from ’30 Rock’". FanBolt Interview, www.fanbolt.com. May 7, 2010.

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• Well if I had my choice I would not - I wouldn't mind working with Alec Baldwin, but the mother role - I'm kidding. It's terrific. I'll tell you what happened with Alec Baldwin and myself. This is a couple acting together just this side of heaven. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with in whole life. And I - I'm not overdoing it. I just think he's about the best around today. So I got lucky.

  Elaine Stritch

  Mother, Couple, Thinking

  "Elaine Stritch Talks the 30 Rock Mother's Day Episode". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 6, 2010.

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• Drama drama drama. The public wants it, so let them get the whole ugly mess. Why not?

  Elaine Stritch

  Drama, Why Not, Ugly

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

  Elaine Stritch

  Lying, Important, Theatre

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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.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, Two, Decision

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• It's very disconcerting to start out and to say, "I'm going to tell the truth," and then to realize it's that much trouble.

  Elaine Stritch

  Realizing, Telling The Truth, Trouble

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• 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 to New York. If you're a nice broad they'll look after you.

  Elaine Stritch

  Country, New York, Nice

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• I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.

  Elaine Stritch

  Falling In Love, Love You, Chemistry

  "Elaine Stritch Talks the 30 Rock Mother's Day Episode". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 6, 2010.

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• I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world!

  Elaine Stritch

  World, Audience

  "Elaine Stritch obituary" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2014.

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• I don't know what to do with Warren Beatty. All I know is that he wasn't attracted to me. That's all right.

  Elaine Stritch

  Beatty, Knows

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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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 naturally. That is what fascinates me.

  Elaine Stritch

  Progress, Stuff, Aging

  "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview With Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

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• There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.

  Elaine Stritch

  Hard Work, Attention, Unattractive

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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