Elaine Stritch Quotes

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.

Elaine Stritch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 2, 1925 - July 17, 2014

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HatEasyYouPerfectPlayAnything

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

Jim Dale

FishingStartYouFeelingMoreOut

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

Jeremy Luke

WorkMeSoundMeanThingsWorking

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

Tori Spelling

WorkStruggleMomFeelingGuilty

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Robert Teeter

LeaderSupportStrongPotentialPoor

Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.

Marvin Ammori

GovernmentGreedRiskBecomeLimit

You have to understand, everyone's body was built to do something. I was built to do something, and that's how I was built. I think the world is realizing we were promoting one body type, and there have always been many.

Michelle Carter

WorldThinkYouBodyUnderstand

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Mitchel Resnick

LearningFunDoingSeeI SeeMost

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Lucretius

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I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Joyce Meyer

ChangeGodWalkMeEarlyWrong

When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.

Donny Osmond

WorkStarsTiredWork HardYouBody

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry

DeathWindowUnderstandingBirthMay

No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't know it better than I do. My parents don't know it better than I do. No one experiences my gender in the way that I experience it.

Chelsea Manning

ExperienceParentsDoctorBetterYou

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