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Everybody's got a sack of rocks.

Elaine Stritch

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Elaine Stritch
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 2
Died: 2014
Died: July 17
Actress
Film Actor
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Detroit
Michigan
Everybody
Sack
Rocks

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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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If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.
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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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I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
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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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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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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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I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting.
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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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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 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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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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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
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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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Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.
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New York is like a disco, but without the music
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