Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

New York

Country

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

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

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

" New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!' "

Elaine Stritch

You

Time

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

" When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly. "

" You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures. "

" I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons. "

" Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people. "

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

" Betty White is probably a very nice woman. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Elaine Stritch

Joyful

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

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

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

" 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. "

" These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is. "

Elaine Stritch

Craft

How

" I'm loaded with talent. "

Elaine Stritch

Talent

Loaded

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

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

Elaine Stritch

Police

Never

" Talent is seductive. "

Elaine Stritch

Talent

Seductive

" 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. "

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

Elaine Stritch

Made

Why

" I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well! "

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

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

Elaine Stritch

My Life

Friends

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