Ellen Barkin Quotes

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• Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

  Ellen Barkin

  Art, Keeping Secrets, Giving

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• I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

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  Night, Oatmeal, Long

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

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  Mother, Men, Treats

  "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.

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• A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

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  Successful, Lasts, Successful Marriage

  Parade Magazine, May 13, 2007.

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

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  Mistake, Back Again, Wanted

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• I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?

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  Who I Am, Looks, Want

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• 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 them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

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  Smile, Girl, Two

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• Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

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  Looks, Gains, Faces

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• There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.

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  Technology, Thinking, Use

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• I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

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  Teacher, Art, School

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

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  Powerful, People, Sticks

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• I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

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  Crazy, Cancer, Gay

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• I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.

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  Ambition, Wish, Vehemence

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• I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?

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  Sex, Children, Couple

  "Ellen Barkin Hopes 'New Normal' Helps 'Redefine What Normal Is'" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 29, 2012.

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• 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 is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

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  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Honesty

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

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  Mother, Baby, Children

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• There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

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  Androgyny, Certain, Appeals

  "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.

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• 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 up to my children, and they are not kind.

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  Children, School, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.

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  Girl, Queens, New York

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• When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

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  Mother, Eye, Son

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• I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.

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  Meaningful, Kids, Emotional

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• But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

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  Issues, Film, Intimacy

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

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  Skins, Skin And Bones, Nicknames

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• I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Faults

  "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.

  Ellen Barkin

  Hands, Shoes, Feet

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