For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.
My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.
I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.
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.
All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.
I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time.
I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.
I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
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.
There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.
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 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.'
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.
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.
I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
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 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.
I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
