I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother,… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something,… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all. — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
