Ellen Burstyn

It's interesting: John Calley at Warner Bros. helped me put 'Alice' together. It was very unusual back then for a studio to…

— Ellen Burstyn

The real work of an actor goes on inside, and I don't think it changes from director to director - I always…

— Ellen Burstyn

I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and…

— Ellen Burstyn

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

— 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…

— 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

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

— Ellen Burstyn

When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works…

— 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,…

— 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

The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden…

— Ellen Burstyn

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I…

— Ellen Burstyn

I left my career in Hollywood, moved back to New York, and went to Lee Strasberg and studied with him for the…

— Ellen Burstyn

There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men,…

— Ellen Burstyn

I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really…

— Ellen Burstyn

What happens is you submit your script with an idea of what the budget might be, and the financier will offer you…

— Ellen Burstyn

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

— Ellen Burstyn

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play.…

— Ellen Burstyn

With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave…

— Ellen Burstyn

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you…

— Ellen Burstyn

I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make…

— Ellen Burstyn

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to…

— Ellen Burstyn

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

— 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…

— Ellen Burstyn

We can all live longer, better, than we ever could before. You don't have to retire.

— Ellen Burstyn