Quotes from Elaine Stritch

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

My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.

I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.

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

Betty White is probably a very nice woman.

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

I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.

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

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

I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

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

I love New York. I went to New York to become an actress, and I did it. And I won all the awards known to man. And I'm happy. And I came home. I came, I saw, I conquered. And it feels great.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people.

Talent is seductive.

I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.

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

I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.