Elaine Stritch Quotes
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.
This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.
I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.
As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
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.
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.
I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting.
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.
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.
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
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.
I don't know what should have happened in my life, but I do know that I'm dancing as fast as I can.
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.
I don't dislike the way I look. I think I look fine. I think I look extraordinary for 88. And I've got energy. Out of my way.
I think it's the wrong way around to say when you get older move to the country. I think when you get older you move to New York. If you're a nice broad they'll look after you.
Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.
This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.
I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
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.
I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.
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.'
I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
I'm going to do less performing because I'm tired. It's hard to convince anybody that you're just going to take it easy.
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.
I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'
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!
All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.