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Elaine Stritch
American
Actress
Born:
Feb 2
,
1925
Died:
Jul 17
,
2014
About
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Love
Me
Think
You
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I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.
Elaine Stritch
Love
You
Chemistry
Fall
About
Particular
Like
Got
Falling
Falling In Love
Person
Just
Love You
Happens
Explain
Clue
Really
Why
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
Love
Time
Day
Celebrate
Every Day
Every
City
Something
Week
New
Like
Practically
York
New York
New York City
Want
Holidays
I mention I'm going home, and I'm a star immediately! This used to happen with my boyfriends - as soon as I'd say, 'I gotta go home now,' they fell in love.
Elaine Stritch
Love
Home
Say
Immediately
Mention
Soon
Fell
Boyfriend
Gotta
Go
Go Home
Going
Going Home
Happen
Used
Star
Now
I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
Elaine Stritch
Myself
Me
Could
Never
Look
Well
Anyone
After
Who
Found
Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
Elaine Stritch
Work
Time
Clever
Takes
Making
Lot
Speeches
My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.
Elaine Stritch
Life
Wonderful
Word
Everybody
Idea
Get
Trying
Serenity
I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.
Elaine Stritch
Love
You
Birmingham
Similar
Know
Very
Michigan
Lovely
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
Whatever
Bit
Easier
Kind
Find
Abstain
Than
Want
Anything
Little
Little Bit
Dame
I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
Elaine Stritch
Other
Inspired
Am
Human
Influenced
Human Beings
Beings
There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.
Elaine Stritch
Me
Fear
Something
Frighten
Really
I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.
Elaine Stritch
Think
Baby
Stayed
Absolutely
Hotel
Hard
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
Me
Money
Mother
Care
Once
About
Without
Said
Very
Want
Much
Ever
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
Me
Enough
Side
Something
Badly
Practical
Fairly
Want
Should
Paid
Thinks
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
Government
Me
Stage
Tells
About
Talking
Understand
Am
Want
Taxes
I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.
Elaine Stritch
Love
You
Liar
Tells
Read
Reviews
Anybody
Who
As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
Elaine Stritch
Food
Eat
Picnic
Diabetic
Times
Walking
Certain
Measured
Amount
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
You
Else
Imitation
Hat
Easy
Russian
Perfect
Part
Accent
Get
Closer
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Harder
Play
Playing
This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.
Elaine Stritch
Happiness
You
Age
Before
Like
Understand
Up
Get
Just
Thing
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
Me
Hate
Wig
Out
Wear
Onstage
Feel
Like
Terrible
Actor
I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
Elaine Stritch
Better
Sugar
No Intention
Retiring
Blood
Intention
Working
Even
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
Life
Day
Me
Every Day
Progress
My Life
Every
Too
Out
Find
Exactly
Had
Stuff
How
Am
Surgical
Curious
Any
Naturally
Fascinates
My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.
Elaine Stritch
Laughable
Exists
Movie
Such A Thing
Even
Thing
Career
Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.
Elaine Stritch
Me
Made
More
Nobody
Movies
Asked
Why
I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
Elaine Stritch
Myself
Great
Talent
Great Talent
Because
Explain
Explaining
Acting
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
People
Some People
Think
Enough
Secure
Some
About
Like
Talked
Because
Being
Really
Need
The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?
Elaine Stritch
You
People
Humor
New
Know
Very
York
Goes
New York
Deep
Level
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