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If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.

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
Television Actor
Detroit
Michigan
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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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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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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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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 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 don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.
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It gets tiring being a smartass.
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There's something exciting about being afraid.
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Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know 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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Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.
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I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
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I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
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I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.
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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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