Acting feels like a congenial condition to me - it's in my genes.
~ Ellen Burstyn

But I was always uncomfortable in that. Physically uncomfortable. Either from the fat suit, or the neck, or my severe dieting. Or wearing the camera.
~ Ellen Burstyn

He's very inventive with his use of the camera, and innovative, so I was doing some creative things I had never done before.
~ Ellen Burstyn

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!
~ Ellen Burstyn

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.
~ Ellen Burstyn

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
~ Ellen Burstyn

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.
~ Ellen Burstyn

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.
~ Ellen Burstyn

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
~ Ellen Burstyn

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