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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.
Elaine Stritch
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Elaine Stritch
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 2
Died: 2014
Died: July 17
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If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.
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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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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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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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I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
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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.
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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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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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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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As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
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Everybody's got a sack of rocks.
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For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork
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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 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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All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.
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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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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 don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.
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I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.
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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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