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
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.
jungle learn method school sending tiger
Marlon's going to school to learn the Method was like sending a tiger to jungle school.
beatty knows
I don't know what to do with Warren Beatty. All I know is that he wasn't attracted to me. That's all right.
theatre tragic
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
theatre stranger audience
Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
nice white very-nice
Betty White is probably a very nice woman.
picnics certain amount
As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
wow needs talent
Tony Bennett said to me, "Wow, your talent is amazing." Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that.
lunch long long-time
There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.
telling-the-truth realizing trouble
It's very disconcerting to start out and to say, "I'm going to tell the truth," and then to realize it's that much trouble.
funny
I'm funny when I want to be. And I'm even funny when I don't want to be.
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.