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" I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working. "
Elaine Stritch
Sugar
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" Fans recognize me all over the place. But the second you need anything, they're never around! They're like the police! "
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" 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. "
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" All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff. "
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" 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. "
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" There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time. "
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" I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons. "
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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 like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book. "
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" New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!' "
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" I never thought about living in New York. I just thought it was great. "
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" Isn't this fantastic, what a star I am? "
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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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" As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times. "
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" I think taking care of yourself, health-wise, in every way, is a 100 percent winner. "
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" There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear. "
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" I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in. "
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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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" You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny. "
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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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" Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives. "
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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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" Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.' "
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" I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that. "
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" My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting. "
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