I'm going to do less performing because I'm tired. It's hard to convince anybody that you're just going to take it easy.

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

There's something exciting about being afraid.

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

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.