Ellen Burstyn Quotes

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• What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
• She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
• Everything gets old if you do it often enough.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
• When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
• 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…
• 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…
• I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
• I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
• Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
• 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…

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