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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.
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 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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Everybody's got a sack of rocks.
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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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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 tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
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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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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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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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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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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 like to keep active. I've got too much energy not to.
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It gets tiring being a smartass.
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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 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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Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.
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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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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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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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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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