Quotes by Ellen Barkin - Page 1

Old is the new sexy.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Sexy
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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Acting
Giving
Matter
Away
Secrets
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There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Androgyny
Appeal
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My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.'
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Bones
Skin
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I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Genes
Pounds
Skinny
Weighs
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I would love to do a television show in New York City.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
New York City
Love City New
Television Show
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'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.
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Transcendent
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I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.
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Feet
Hands
Huge
Size
Wear
Shoe
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A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.
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Lasts
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My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.
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Husband
Cook
Compromising
Thinks
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I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.
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Dinner
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My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Good Work
Work Good Good Work
Diner
Mercies
Tender
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Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Respect
Enormous
Love Men Women
Love Women Respect
Mothers
Treat
Wonderfully
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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.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Ambition
Me More Wish
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I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Extreme
Event
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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.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Big Mistake
Introspective
Mistake
Reflective
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I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Committed
Curious
Income
Parent
Skills
Unmarried
Raise
Same-Sex
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No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Sake
Throwing
Bare
Me Children School
Bodies
Other Kids
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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.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Acting
High School
Performing
Performing Arts
School
Studied
School Acting High School
Actor
Teachers
Arts
Audition
High
School Acting High
Lee
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When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.
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Mother
Son
Played
Ball
Liked
Dicaprio
Eyes
Leo
Nose
Rounded
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When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Unconditional Love
Baby
Children
Mother
Unconditional
Desperately
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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.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Cheese
Cookies
Every Night
Fried Chicken
Weight
Bag
Chicken
Dressed
Fried
Gain
Gain Weight
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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.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Extraordinary
Gabriel
Hard Times
Stuck
Work Hope Always
Work Hope Me
Byrne
Human Being
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The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Inspiring
Honesty
Motherhood
Mothers Day
Real
Good Movies Bad
Audience Member
Miss
Member
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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?
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No Problem
Uncomfortable
Discover
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Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Dance
Shoes
Violin
Lake
Swan
Toe
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Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Pounds
Fat
Good Movies Myself
Round
Gain
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It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Girl
New York
Queens
De Niro
Mean
Standing
Al
Al Pacino
Cast
Elizabeth
Ethnic
Queen
Limitations
Niro
Robert
Robert De Niro
Stretch
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There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Thank You
Agents
Movie Star
One Day
Stars
Agent
Calls
Slow
Thank
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You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
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Cute
Daughter
Smile
Good Mother
Hippie
Mother
Painter
Pro Life
Sweet
Love Family Good
No Choice
Pro-Choice
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I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Grandchildren
Husband
Pay
Six
Leave
Work Me Your
Guess
Rent
Seriously
Teenagers
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I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Ballerina
Method
Obliged
Violinist
Teachers
Aside
Craft
Table
Trained
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But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Anger
Access
Intimacy
Me Own My Own
Expressing
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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.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Creepy
Philosophical
Plastic
Plastic Surgery
Position
Scared
Surgery
Looking
Different Person
Facelift
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I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Aids
Cancer
Crazy Things
Disease
Sick
Catch
More People
Terrifying
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I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Fighting
Gender
Profound
Seconds
Womanhood
Anyone Else
Bra
Burn
Crest
Feminists
Fought
Limited
Rode
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When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Schwarzenegger
Upset
Arnold
As Much Money
Joan
Just As Much
Terminator
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It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Girl
Smile
Broken
Clear
Crooked
Looks
People
Pretty Girl
Red
Teeth
Two
Whole
Smile Face Me
Always Face Me
Had
Face
Smile Always Face
Pretty
Smile Always Me
Been
Fix
Times
Front
Nose
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I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.
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Existential
Meaningful
Crying
Final
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I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.'
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Bronx
Tenacious
Raise
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With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.
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Scary
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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.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Embarrassing
Humiliated
Laziness
Lazy
Therapy
Visible
Me People Never
Me People Looking
Audition
Awhile
Me Looking People
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I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.
Ellen Barkin / Actress
Caught
Construction
Method
Captures
Talented
Laborer
Onstage
Trained
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