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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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If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.
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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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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.
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There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.
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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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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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It gets tiring being a smartass.
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I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.
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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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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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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 there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.
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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 have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
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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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I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
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I like to keep active. I've got too much energy not to.
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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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