Elaine Stritch

“I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.”

“The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?”

“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.'”

“I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.”