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" My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable. "
Elaine Stritch
Movie
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Even
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Talent is seductive. "
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" I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time. "
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" Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people. "
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" There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful. "
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" There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater. "
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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 I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise. "
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" Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me. "
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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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" I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it. "
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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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" There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time. "
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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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" You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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 biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent. "
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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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" You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening. "
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" Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease. "
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" I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired. "
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" Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue. "
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" I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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