It's unfortunate but our society is such that, for women in Hollywood, you get to a certain age and just fall off a cliff. But in my case, I refuse to die. I will hang on, by a little finger if necessary.
~ Ellen Burstyn

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
~ Ellen Burstyn

I've wanted an Oscar since I was seven years old. It is the basis of all my secret fantasies.
~ Ellen Burstyn

Jack Nicholson - I think that's the best thing he's ever done, it has the least Nicholsonian things in it. He really created a character different from himself.
~ Ellen Burstyn

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
~ Ellen Burstyn

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
~ Ellen Burstyn

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.
~ Ellen Burstyn

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

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
~ Ellen Burstyn

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.
~ Ellen Burstyn

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