Ellen Burstyn Quotes

• What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Happy Life, Talent, Life Is

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• Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Regret, Trying, Toxins

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• She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Addiction, Feelings, Way

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• Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Aging, Enough, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Lois Farrow". "The Last Picture Show", 1971.

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• 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.

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  Play, Interesting, Way

  Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• 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 new one.

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  Couple, Years, Oscars

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• 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 actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor.

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  Character, Thinking, Personality

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• 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 to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

  Ellen Burstyn

  People, Manhattan, Brooklyn

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

  Ellen Burstyn

  Soup, Cabbage, Able

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• 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 mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

  Ellen Burstyn

  Mother, Thinking, Play

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• 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, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Hurt, Passion, Thinking

  Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• 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 dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Dream, Coffee, Character

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• To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Teenager, Son, Moral

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

  Ellen Burstyn

  Sin, Film, Making Money

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". The Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• 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 the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

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  Art, Appreciate, Acting

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• 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.

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  Running, New York, Theatre

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• 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

  Depressing, Play, Drug

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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