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Ellen Burstyn Quotes
But I was always uncomfortable in that. Physically uncomfortable. Either from the fat suit, or the neck, or my severe dieting. Or wearing the camera. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. Ive always wanted to do that. Now Im thinking, Maybe theres a story in Joan of Arcs mother! If I dont hurry up, her grandmother! - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I couldnt kill a chicken, I couldnt kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldnt kill this and I couldnt kill that. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I do like to work with young directors because its such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well its a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didnt make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didnt want to get that far. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
Ive lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didnt make an awful lot of sense to me. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
Its a sin to have your films not to make money. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
Its about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
Its been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
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 film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
So I was at the Actors Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, Well, I could kill that chair! - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
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 for the first time. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and thats it. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
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 should I put myself through that for hardly any money? - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
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 ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
To me, its a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
Well my taste wasnt very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
When youve been an actress for 45 years as I have, its a feast or famine life and I thought that maybe it was time now to have a steady gig! - Ellen Burstyn Quotes
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