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I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.

Elaine Stritch

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Elaine Stritch
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 2
Died: 2014
Died: July 17
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Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.
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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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As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
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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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This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.
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New York is like a disco, but without the music
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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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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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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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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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If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.
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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 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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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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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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It gets tiring being a smartass.
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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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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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