Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritchwas an American actress and singer, known for her work on Broadway. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and appeared in numerous stage plays, musicals, feature films and television series. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actress
Date of Birth2 February 1925
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
jungle learn method school sending tiger
Marlon's going to school to learn the Method was like sending a tiger to jungle school.
against breeding broads convent crap extending finger great schools sipping
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.
playing shoot work
When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.
humor people york
The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?
people
I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that.
company glad none
Look at the company I'm in here. And I'm so glad none of them won.
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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.
You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening.
fear frightens
There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.
street time yorkers
New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'
clever speeches takes time work
Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
hard stayed
I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.
betty good image money taking white work
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.
government tells understand
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.