Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstynis an American actress. Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next decade included several films and television series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 December 1932
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
aging enough ifs
Everything gets old if you do it often enough.
character thinking personality
Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're not seeing an actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor.
teenager son moral
To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
depressing play drug
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?'
dream coffee character
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.
actress famine feast life maybe steady time
When you've been an actress for 45 years as I have, it's a feast or famine life and I thought that maybe it was time now to have a steady gig!
alone discover lovely surprise
What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be
cow time
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.
glance happened saw side ugliest
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!'
life lived narrow outlook patterns talked women
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
feed food life money table
Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.
central children work
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.
fairly goes loses pounds totally wearing
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.
good script universal
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.