I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn… — 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 lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share
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, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really?… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share
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
