Ellen Burstyn Quotes
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!
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.
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Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
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I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.
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I'm quite hardcore on this. I think every psychic and medium in this country belongs in prison. Even the ones demented enough to believe in what they're doing. In fact, especially them. Give them windowless cells and make them crap in buckets.
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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!
