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• ‟ Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

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• ‟ Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ 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.'

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

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• ‟ I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

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• ‟ For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.

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• ‟ Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.

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• ‟ I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

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