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

Elaine Stritch

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

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

Elaine Stritch

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.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

Betty White is probably a very nice woman.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

Elaine Stritch

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.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.

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