Ambition Quote by Ellen Barkin

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

— Ellen Barkin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.

— Ellen Barkin

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

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

— Ellen Barkin