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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 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.
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People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going.
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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.
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It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me.
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For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.
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I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
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If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.
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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.
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I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.
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I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
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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 all, whatever I do.
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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 or I don’t think I’m worth two cents. And I am starting to get over it, thank God. And I’m just sad because I don’t have many years left and I wish I had a longer space of time to think that Elaine Stritch is okay.
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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.
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Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.
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