Ellen Barkin Quotes
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!'
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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For me, family has always come first.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.
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There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.
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You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.
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Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.
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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!'
