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Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn
American Actress
Born: Dec 7, 1932
Always Live Made Me Work You
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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. Ellen Burstyn
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I'm always learning and trying new things. When you stop learning, you start dying. Ellen Burstyn
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There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted. Ellen Burstyn
Parents Whatever Could Abuse Child Child Abuse Owned Children Wanted Thing
I eat healthily and exercise, and I'm not giving up and saying I'm too old - I'm just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity. Ellen Burstyn
Saying Old Enthusiasm Giving Giving Up Too Eat Determined Exercise Up Curiosity Just Not Giving Up Interest Keep Marching
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
Character Son Reality Coffee Become Hell Addicted Addictions Television Dream About Various Through Lead Escape Which Chocolate Avoiding Routes Her Basis
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
Good Director Out Good Story Well Make Said Left Did Want Story Script Them Rough Universal
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
Work Business Hurt Sometimes Passion Young Difficult Think Directors Like Because Around Always Been Off Get Gets After While
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. Ellen Burstyn
Art Good First Later Say Out Would Admire Most Well Began Very Taste Acting Actress Started Appreciate
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. Ellen Burstyn
Thought Kind New Looked Couple Couple Of Years Ago Been Years Years Ago New One Tarnished Getting Really Awhile Oscar Needed
All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person. Ellen Burstyn
Life Home Me Happy My Life Whatever Satisfied Way Would Would-Be Sedentary Jolly Had Know Around Answer Question Up Person Loving Asked Who Grown Grown-Up
With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation. Ellen Burstyn
You Situation Living Think Able Make Terrible Least Won Really Awards
With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave him the money he needed to make the film. He cast it with the actors that he thought were right for the parts. Now, it's the reverse. Ellen Burstyn
Money Thought Made Picture Gave Brought Cast He Liked Make Him Parts Were Reverse Script Show Company Peter Film Now Actor Right Last Needed
There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men, and it's reflected in the scripts they buy and the work that gets made. Ellen Burstyn
Work Buy Made Men Doubt Live No Doubt Studios Heads Also Industry Reflected Gets Controls Patriarchy Movie Movie Industry Scripts
The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden in Rockland County on the Hudson River in the 1980s. I had all the actors from the Actors Studio come out, and we made our own costumes. Ellen Burstyn
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I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are. Ellen Burstyn
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I left my career in Hollywood, moved back to New York, and went to Lee Strasberg and studied with him for the rest of his life. Ellen Burstyn
Life Rest Back Studied New Him His Lee Left York Moved New York Hollywood Career
I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there's any purpose to our being here. Ellen Burstyn
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The real work of an actor goes on inside, and I don't think it changes from director to director - I always go for broke! But I don't get a lot of direction, unfortunately. Ellen Burstyn
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I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best. Ellen Burstyn
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