Quotes by Elaine Stritch

About Elaine Stritch:

Elaine Stritch was an American actress and singer, best known for her work on Broadway. She appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and television series. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995.
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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.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

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

Elaine Stritch

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

Elaine Stritch

I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

Elaine Stritch

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.'

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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 every...

Elaine Stritch

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

Elaine Stritch

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.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

Author Bio

  • NameElaine Stritch
  • Descriptionactress from the United States
  • BornFebruary 2, 1925
  • DiedJuly 17, 2014
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Singer
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award