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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 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.' "

Elaine Stritch

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" I like glasses so I can go out without my makeup. Just grab your coat and get your hat and go. "

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

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

" You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening. "

" Isn't this fantastic, what a star I am? "

" I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have. "

" I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar. "

" Betty White is probably a very nice woman. "

" You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny. "

" The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect. "

" 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. "

" My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting. "

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

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

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

Elaine Stritch

Joyful

" I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that. "

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

" 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. "

" Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. "

" My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent. "

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

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

" I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy. "

" Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue. "

" 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 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. "

" Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people. "

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