Ellen Barkin Quotes

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• Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.
• 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 no…
• I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain…
• 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 would love to do a television show in New York City.
• 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, the…
• Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
• I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work…
• My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.
• When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother…
• When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look…
• There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.
• I don’t want to be a mentor in my bedroom...
• 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 up…
• There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day…
• 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 them…
• I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer…
• You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.
• My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.
• People tend to remember my performances, not me.

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