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Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Charlotte Ross

People relate to life being challenging and hard, and still trying to keep a positive attitude and keep going. If you're alone, there's nothing wrong with that. That's fine. But, finding the right person is something that you would really like and hope for. — Charlotte Ross

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're not seeing an actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

It's a sin to have your films not to make money. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Henry James

Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints. — Henry James

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!' — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By W.B.Yeats

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. — W.B.Yeats

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

Dying is not a crime. — Jack Kevorkian

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Debasish Mridha

Beauty is not always in the face, but it is always in confidence. — Debasish Mridha

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Elizabeth Wurtzel

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?' — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By John Quincy Adams

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name ... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity ... he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory. — John Quincy Adams

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Richelle Mead

The guy that's going to kick your ass for hurting her. — Richelle Mead

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother! — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

Everything gets old if you do it often enough. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Saroo Brierley

We all reach a point as young adults when we wonder what we should be doing with our lives - or, at the very least, which direction to point ourselves in. Beyond the means to get by, we need to think about what's most important to us. Not surprisingly, I discovered that for me the answer was family. — Saroo Brierley

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Matt Reeves

When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real. — Matt Reeves

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Liv Tyler

I just think it's really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don't necessarily take them really seriously - I don't even think a lot of really good films get seen. But I don't think that's what it's about. I mean, how amazing was Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream ? Especially as she was acting with herself most of the time. I don't understand how a performance like that can't win. I was so affected by that movie that I had to turn it off. I felt as if I was on drugs and my heart was about to leap out of my body. — Liv Tyler

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Susan Sarandon

As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill. — Susan Sarandon

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Ellen Burstyn

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far. — Ellen Burstyn

Burstyn Ellen Quotes By Michiel Huisman

When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible. — Michiel Huisman