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Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
Elaine Stritch
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Elaine Stritch
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 2
Died: 2014
Died: July 17
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I don't dislike the way I look. I think I look fine. I think I look extraordinary for 88. And I've got energy. Out of my way.
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There's something exciting about being afraid.
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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 shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.
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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. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!
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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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As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
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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.
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I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.
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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.
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I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.
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Tony Bennett said to me, Wow, your talent is amazing. Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that.
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