Top 58 Quotes by Elaine Stritch

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

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.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

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.'

All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.

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.

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

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.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

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.