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All Quotes by author - Elaine Stritch

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

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

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

" Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life. "

" Betty White is probably a very nice woman. "

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

" Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease. "

" Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. "

" Fans recognize me all over the place. But the second you need anything, they're never around! They're like the police! "

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

" For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there. "

" Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split. "

" 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. "

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

" I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person. "

" 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 compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it. "

" I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide. "

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

" I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If I see someone saying the rosary in the wings, I know they've got talent. "

" I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working. "

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