Elaine Stritch Theatre Quotations

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.

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

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

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.