Top 39 Burstyn Quotes
#1. When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.
Matt Reeves
#3. 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
#5. Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.
Alvin Ailey
#6. They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.
Ellen Burstyn
#7. I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
Ellen Burstyn
#8. 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
#9. Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.
Ellen Burstyn
#10. To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
Ellen Burstyn
#11. I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.
Peter Maxwell Davies
#12. 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.
Ellen Burstyn
#13. 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!
Ellen Burstyn
#15. But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
J.K. Rowling
#16. I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.
Eddie Vedder
#17. She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.
Ellen Burstyn
#18. It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
Ellen Burstyn
#19. Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'
Ellen Burstyn
#20. Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
Ellen Burstyn
#21. 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
#22. Like a great bog humanity swamped her, and she sank in, weak at the knees, filled with repulsion and fear of every person she met.
D.H. Lawrence
#23. Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Thomas Mann
#24. What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
Ellen Burstyn
#25. Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.
Ellen Burstyn
#26. I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
Ellen Burstyn
#27. I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
Manuel Puig
#28. When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.
Ellen Burstyn
#29. I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.
Ellen Burstyn
#30. I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
Ozzy Osbourne
#31. 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
#32. I believe that vulnerability - the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome - is the only path to more love, belonging, and joy.
Brene Brown
#33. 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
#34. MySpace is a great way to keep in touch with friends who you don't care enough about to actually have a conversation with, why bother calling to say "how are you," when you can just surf their page and post an mpeg of a guy farting on his cat.
David Spade
#35. She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
Ellen Burstyn
#36. I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
Ellen Burstyn
#37. 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
#38. People are not alarmed by the unusual so long as it is placed in an acceptable context.
Michael Moorcock
#39. So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'
Ellen Burstyn
