Elaine Stritch Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Elaine Stritch:

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

I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

I think taking care of yourself, health-wise, in every way, is a 100 percent winner.

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

All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.

Elaine Stritch

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.

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

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

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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.

Elaine Stritch

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

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 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.

Elaine Stritch

There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book.

Elaine Stritch

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.

Elaine Stritch

I'm loaded with talent.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people.

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

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time, and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

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

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

Elaine Stritch

Betty White is probably a very nice woman.

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch

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

Elaine Stritch