Seinfeld is one of the very few Television receiver series with no dead weight in its cast. All four characters are hilarious in their ain way. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who played Elaine on the show, has the distinction of existence the only actor in the chief cast non to suffer from the "Seinfeld curse," the supposed curse that kept the others from having another successful prove afterward the series ended.

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Not just has Louis-Dreyfus enjoyed one other hit sitcom later on Seinfeld ended – she'southward enjoyed two! And a boatload of Emmys followed her into the future of her career. Of course, she'll always exist best known for playing Elaine. So, here are the 9 Best Elaine Benes Quotes.

9 On "those things"

"I don't know how you guys walk around with those things."

Elaine has e'er had a hard human relationship with "those things." Remember the guy who "took it out" in the car on their kickoff date? She got the chance to inquire almost life with "it" when the group went upwards to the Hamptons. This is one of many great lines from the episode that coined the term "shrinkage." Jerry and George are explaining the concept to her – which she thinks has something to practise with laundry at showtime – and she makes this immortal statement.

8 On The English Patient

"I tin't do this anymore, it's too long! Only tell your stupid story about the stupid desert and but die already! Die!"

It's been Oscar season lately, and then a lot of people tin can sympathize with Elaine in the episode "The English Patient." She's watching the movie the episode is named after, which was showered with awards and adored by the world, and she finds that she doesn't actually enjoy it. But when she says she doesn't savour information technology, information technology makes people hate her. And then, when her boss mentions the motion-picture show, she lies and says she hasn't seen it – so he drags her to the theater to watch it. And then she snaps.

7 On confidence

"Is it possible that I'm not every bit attractive as I think I am?"

This line has the perfect alloy of self-confidence and insecurity that makes the characters of Seinfeld both terrible and lovable people. Elaine clearly thinks she's very attractive, just and so she'due south doubting if she's correct nearly the verbal level of bewitchery she thinks of herself.

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Jerry responds with the hilarious quip, "Anything's possible." This besides exemplifies how these people are the worst thing for each other. Jerry doesn't support his friend and tell her, "No, no, you're very attractive." He just throws some more fuel on her insecurities.

half-dozen On dingoes and babies

"Perchance the dingo ate your baby!"

We've all been in the state of affairs Elaine is in when she says this. She's stuck talking to someone at a political party who she barely knows and who she finds completely annoying. This woman keeps prattling on about her fiancé, who she calls her "baby," and then Elaine breaks into an Australian accent and says, "Maybe the dingo ate your baby!" Back in the '90s, when this was in its original ambulation, everyone would recall the court case this is a reference to, but perhaps it's even funnier today without the frame of reference. Mayhap it'south fifty-fifty funnier out of context.

5 On toilet newspaper

"Three squares? Y'all can't spare three squares?"

We've all been in that awful situation. You lot're in a bathroom stall and find that there'southward no toilet paper left. Elaine, unfortunately, happened to find herself in the stall next to the most stubborn woman in the world who refused to requite up a unmarried foursquare. This bartering over the number of squares she can spare has Larry David written all over it, equally information technology'due south the kind of trivial debate that would make his bear witness Curb Your Enthusiasm a hitting on HBO years after. Of grade, the other woman turns out to be Jerry'due south new girlfriend, conveniently plenty, so Jerry is unwittingly defenseless in the eye of this debate.

4 On breakups

"I once broke up with someone for not offering me pie."

One of the chief things that Jerry and Elaine have in common is that they both interruption upward with people for lilliputian things. They can never judge each other for information technology because they know they're just as bad. The ironic thing is that this is the reason they didn't work as a couple themselves. They're also like, and this is one of the similarities, so they couldn't make their relationship work. This is something that all those people who expected Jerry and Elaine to go together in the finale should've thought about.

3 On sexuality

"I'm not a lesbian! I hate men, merely I'm not a lesbian!"

Like Friends, the other '90s sitcom near a grouping of pals in New York, Seinfeld was both progressive for its time and regressive for today. In the season 3 episode "The Subway," Elaine is riding the titular subway to attend the same-sexual activity wedding of ii women at which she is the "best man."

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As she explains this to a woman on the train, the adult female walks off, thinking she's nuts, and Elaine pleads with her that she herself isn't gay. That whole situation is muddled about whether information technology wants to be pro-lesbian or anti-lesbian. There are good points and bad points. But at least it resulted in this terrific line.

two On making plans

"What are we gonna do in that location? Talk? I'll get if I don't have to talk."

The way Elaine Benes sees it, social situations are a total facade. Whatever plans you make to go out with people and spend time with them is only a forepart to show the world that y'all take a life.

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She cuts right through that facade as she makes plans with Jerry in one of the earliest episodes of the show – flavour ane'south "Male person Unbonding," the only episode in the whole 9-season run not to follow the show's "The..." episode titling format – and tells him, "I'll go if I don't take to talk."

i On priorities in relationships

"I can't exist with someone who doesn't pause up nicely. It'south an important role of the human relationship."

While Kramer has an inexplicable success rate with dating and George has a tremendous lack of success in the same area, Jerry and Elaine are just normal enough that they've found a sort of middle basis. They see just equally many partners come and become every bit George and Kramer, but for them, it's almost a 50/50 divide of who ends it. Elaine was famously progressive in that she was a promiscuous female grapheme who slept around and never had whatever intentions to go married or take kids, different almost other female characters on TV at the time. For her, a breakdown is always in sight – relationships are merely fun while they terminal.

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