I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film.
~ Ellen Burstyn

I thought it was fabulous. My next ambition is to get nominated for seven seconds, and, ultimately, I want to be nominated for a picture in which I don't even appear.
~ Ellen Burstyn

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.
~ Ellen Burstyn

I'm writing my memoirs right now and I keep getting asked that question about who would play me. It's such a scary idea that I have no idea what the answer is.
~ Ellen Burstyn

It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn't make an awful lot of sense to me.
~ Ellen Burstyn

It's a lot of fun to take the rides and to take part in the bright lights. But it's also nice to go home at night and be quiet.
~ Ellen Burstyn

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
~ Ellen Burstyn

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.
~ Ellen Burstyn

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.
~ Ellen Burstyn

It's not true at all! I know he says that but I keep telling him that I wish we'd had a tape recorder because he mis-remembers!
~ Ellen Burstyn

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