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" A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead. "
Ellen Barkin
You
Successful
Marriage
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" I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent? "
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" I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house. "
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" I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for. "
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Someone
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" Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself. "
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Good
Friend
" You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really. "
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Mother
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" I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren. "
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Work
Me
Husband
" I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist. "
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You
Acting
Know
" My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three. "
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He
Cook
Three
" I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds. "
Ellen Barkin
Genes
Pounds
Skinny
" When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son. "
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Said
Son
Eyes
" It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth. "
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Men
Girl
Me
" 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.' "
Ellen Barkin
Quality
Me
New York
" Old is the new sexy. "
Ellen Barkin
New
Sexy
Old
" 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. "
Ellen Barkin
Person
Fault
I Am
" It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center. "
Ellen Barkin
People
Smile
Face
" The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. "
Ellen Barkin
Voice
Good
Honesty
" People tend to remember my performances, not me. "
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People
Tend
Remember
" I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky. "
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I Wish
Down
Wish
" My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work. "
Ellen Barkin
Good
Work
Diner
" Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. "
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Acting
Secrets
Matter
" I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts. "
Ellen Barkin
Acting
Teachers
School
" There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!' "
Ellen Barkin
Thank You
Better
Day
" Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own. "
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Lake
Acting
Feel
" 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. "
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Treat
Woman
Picture
" I would love to do a television show in New York City. "
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City
New York
Television
" There is a certain androgyny to my appeal. "
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Certain
Androgyny
Appeal
" I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed. "
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Night
Bag
Long
" I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe. "
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Wear
Feet
Hands
" The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself. "
Ellen Barkin
Up
Woman
You
" I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet. "
Ellen Barkin
Good
You
Worry