People Quote by 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 support an…

— Ellen Burstyn

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

— Ellen Burstyn

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

— 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 not seeing…

— 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 of William…

— 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, I would…

— 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 in Rockland…

— Ellen Burstyn

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

— Ellen Burstyn