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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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I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.
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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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I like to keep active. I've got too much energy not to.
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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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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.
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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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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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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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It gets tiring being a smartass.
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Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.
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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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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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I get sick of saying how hard everything is. It's hard to get up in the morning. Everything's hard. Everything takes effort.
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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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If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.
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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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