Quotes by Ellen Barkin

Ellen Barkin

‘Normal Heart’ was my most transcendent moment as an actor.

Actors

Heart

Normal

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

Lasts

Successful

Successful Marriage

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he’d say the same about me.

Hard Times

Kids

Two

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.

Faults

Mistake

Thinking

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.

Long

Night

Oatmeal

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?

Looks

Want

Who I Am

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I’m lazy, though I’m sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

Lazy

People

Years

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.

Art

School

Teacher

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.

Ambition

Vehemence

Wish

I’d never say I’ll never have a facelift, but I’m way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don’t want to look crazy. And I don’t like not being able to tell how old someone is: It’s creepy.

Crazy

Philosophical

Political

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Back Again

Certain

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Daughter

Eye

Faults

Girl

Hands

Hard Times

Heart

Husband

Kids

Lasts

Lazy

Long

Looks

Mistake

Mother

New York

Nicknames

Night

Normal

Oatmeal

People

Philosophical

Political

Powerful

Queens

School

Skin And Bones

Skins

Smile

Son

Sticks

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Successful Marriage

Teacher

Thinking

Three

Two

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Quotes by Ellen Barkin

Ellen Barkin

‘Normal Heart’ was my most transcendent moment as an actor.

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

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he’d say the same about me.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

I’d never say I’ll never have a facelift, but I’m way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don’t want to look crazy. And I don’t like not being able to tell how old someone is: It’s creepy.

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