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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
Sack
Rocks
Everybody

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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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I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
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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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There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.
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I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.
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It gets tiring being a smartass.
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I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
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For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork
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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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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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There's something exciting about being afraid.
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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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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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I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting.
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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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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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Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
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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 don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.
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I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!
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