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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
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Detroit
Michigan
Everybody
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Rocks
More quotes by Elaine Stritch
Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.
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I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.
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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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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 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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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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New York is like a disco, but without the music
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I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
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I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
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It gets tiring being a smartass.
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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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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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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 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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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 like to keep active. I've got too much energy not to.
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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 want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.
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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 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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