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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.

Elaine Stritch

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Elaine Stritch
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 2
Died: 2014
Died: July 17
Actress
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
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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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Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
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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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If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.
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Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.
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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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This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.
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I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world!
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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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