Quotes by Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn

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.

Character

Personality

Thinking

Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

Aging

Enough

Ifs

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!

Mother

Play

Thinking

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

Able

Cabbage

Soup

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.

Hurt

Passion

Thinking

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.

Brooklyn

Manhattan

People

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

Film

Making Money

Sin

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.

Character

Coffee

Dream

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.

Couple

Oscars

Years

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

Regret

Toxins

Trying

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Able

Acting

Addiction

Aging

Appreciate

Art

Being Alone

Brooklyn

Cabbage

Character

Coffee

Couple

Depressing

Dream

Drug

Enough

Feelings

Film

Happy Life

Hurt

Ifs

Interesting

Life Is

Loneliness

Lonely

Making Money

Manhattan

Moral

Mother

New York

Oscars

Passion

People

Personality

Play

Regret

Running

Sin

Son

Soup

Talent

Teenager

Theatre

Thinking

Toxins

Trying

Way

Years

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Quotes by Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn

Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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