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Elaine Stritch Quotes

All you have to do is say, ‘I’m going home,’ and you’re the most popular girl at the party.

– Elaine Stritch

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I’m playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

– Elaine Stritch

I don’t want to see my family all the time, and they’re delighted, I’m sure, to be aware of that.

– Elaine Stritch

All of the writing on ’30 Rock’ is a joy to go into. It’s pretty hot stuff.

– Elaine Stritch

I don’t want to see a movie twice. I don’t want to do anything twice.

– Elaine Stritch

I like being talked about. I think some people really don’t… because they’re secure enough and they don’t need that.

– Elaine Stritch

I don’t think there’s any thrill in the world like doing work you’re good at.

– Elaine Stritch

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

– Elaine Stritch

I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.

– Elaine Stritch

I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don’t want to live in New York anymore. I’m just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don’t feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do.

– Elaine Stritch

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

– Elaine Stritch

I mention I’m going home, and I’m a star immediately! This used to happen with my boyfriends – as soon as I’d say, ‘I gotta go home now,’ they fell in love.

– Elaine Stritch

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

– Elaine Stritch

As a diabetic, I’m a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.

– Elaine Stritch

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.

– Elaine Stritch

I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don’t read reviews is a liar.

– Elaine Stritch

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, ‘Only ingenues age.’

– Elaine Stritch

I’m a hotel baby, absolutely: it’s hard to think of a hotel I haven’t stayed in.

– Elaine Stritch

When I’m playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won’t.

– Elaine Stritch

Isn’t this fantastic, what a star I am?

– Elaine Stritch

I don’t have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.

– Elaine Stritch

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

– Elaine Stritch

Why haven’t I made more movies? Nobody asked me.

– Elaine Stritch

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

– Elaine Stritch

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

– Elaine Stritch

My idea of serenity – that wonderful word that everybody’s trying to get into their life – is call-waiting.

– Elaine Stritch

Betty White is probably a very nice woman.

– Elaine Stritch

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.

– Elaine Stritch

You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening.

– Elaine Stritch

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

– Elaine Stritch

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