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Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'
All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.
I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
I like glasses so I can go out without my makeup. Just grab your coat and get your hat and go.
My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.
I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.
I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.
I don't know what should have happened in my life, but I do know that I'm dancing as fast as I can.
There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful.
Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.
I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.
My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.
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.
For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.
You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split.
I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that.
I'm going to do less performing because I'm tired. It's hard to convince anybody that you're just going to take it easy.
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.
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.
I get sick of saying how hard everything is. It's hard to get up in the morning. Everything's hard. Everything takes effort.
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.
I don't dislike the way I look. I think I look fine. I think I look extraordinary for 88. And I've got energy. Out of my way.
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
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.
For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork
I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York.
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.
There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book.
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.'
I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.
It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me.
When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd rather be in Detroit, Michigan, than Lenox Hill.
I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
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.
Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.
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.
These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.
I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.
I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!
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.
People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going.
There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.
I think it's the wrong way around to say when you get older move to the country. I think when you get older you move to New York. If you're a nice broad they'll look after you.
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.
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.
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.
Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.