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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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" 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. "

" When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd rather be in Detroit, Michigan, than Lenox Hill. "

" There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater. "

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

" Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing. "

" I love New York. I went to New York to become an actress, and I did it. And I won all the awards known to man. And I'm happy. And I came home. I came, I saw, I conquered. And it feels great. "

" 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.' "

" There are a lot of things I do that I don't want to, but I have to. It's truly an emotional need for me to perform. "

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

" There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful. "

" I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise. "

" I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world! "

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

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

" My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable. "

" I never thought about living in New York. I just thought it was great. "

" What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes. "

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

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

" I'm funny when I want to be. And I'm even funny when I don't want to be. "

" I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time. "

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

" 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. "

" There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time. "

" 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 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. "

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

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