Elaine Stritch Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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 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 don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.”

“New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'”

“You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening.”

“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.”

“I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.”

“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.”

“There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.”

“Betty White is probably a very nice woman.”