I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.

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.

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

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 certainly was not the romantic lead. I couldn't be that, because I was not that good looking. And that is something about Hollywood that I do not like at all. Why can't a woman who is just normally good looking fall in love? I mean, everybody in the movies is so good looking.

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