Elaine Stritch
Easy does it is what I'm looking for.Collection: Doe
Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.Collection: Actors
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.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Tired
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!Collection: Different
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.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Thinking
I certainly was not the romantic lead. I couldn't be that, because I was not that good looking. And that is something about Hollywood that I do not like at all. Why can't a woman who is just normally good looking fall in love? I mean, everybody in the movies is so good looking.Collection: Falling In Love
I get sick of saying how hard everything is. It's hard to get up in the morning. Everything's hard. Everything takes effort.Collection: Morning
There's something exciting about being afraid.Collection: Exciting
I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Cameras
I like to keep active. I've got too much energy not to.Collection: Energy
If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.Collection: Jail
Well if I had my choice I would not - I wouldn't mind working with Alec Baldwin, but the mother role - I'm kidding. It's terrific. I'll tell you what happened with Alec Baldwin and myself. This is a couple acting together just this side of heaven. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with in whole life. And I - I'm not overdoing it. I just think he's about the best around today. So I got lucky.Collection: Mother
Drama drama drama. The public wants it, so let them get the whole ugly mess. Why not?Collection: Drama
Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Realizing
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Beatty
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.Collection: Hard Work