American - Actress | February 2, 1925 - July 17, 2014
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.
Elaine Stritch
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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.
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I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
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Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split.
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I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time.
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Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
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I never thought about living in New York. I just thought it was great.
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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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Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.
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I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.
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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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There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful.
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