Ellen Burstyn Quotes

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

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• I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.

  

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  

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• For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.

  

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• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

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• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

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• Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

  

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• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

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• I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

  

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• You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

  

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• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

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• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

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• 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
  • Thinking