Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin
Ellen Rona Barkin is an American actress and film producer. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 comedy-drama film Diner, and the following years she had starring roles in films include Tender Mercies, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, and The Big Easy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 April 1954
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
diners firsts mercy
My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.
arnold joan money movies treat upset
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.
attended wedding
no one attended the wedding because of that.
new-york thinking hands
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.'
years people lazy
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.
mother pounds skinny
I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.
who-i-am looks want
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?
shoes feet hands
I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.
mistake thinking faults
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.
kids hard-times two
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.
issues film intimacy
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.
successful lasts successful-marriage
A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.
people remember performances
People tend to remember my performances, not me.
skins nicknames skin-and-bones
My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.