Ellen Burstyn quotes

Ellen Burstyn is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film, television, and theatre. Her work has earned her numerous prestigious awards, including an Academy Award and several Emmy and Tony nominations. She continues to inspire audiences with her versatility and dedication to the craft. Here are 17 of her quotes:

What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be. (Ellen Burstyn)

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

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

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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.

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

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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!

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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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I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.

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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.

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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)

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

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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?'

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So I was at the Actor's 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!'

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I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's 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

Ellen Burstyn

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Occupation: American Actress
Born: December 7, 1932
Quotes count: 17
Wikipedia: Ellen Burstyn

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