Ellen Burstyn Quotes

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

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

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

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.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

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

Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

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.

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

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

When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

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