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" I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for. "
Ellen Barkin
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" With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of. "
Ellen Barkin
Fear
Walk
Me
" 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
" 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. "
Ellen Barkin
Night
Bag
Long
" I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it. "
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Looking
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" 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
" I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage. "
Ellen Barkin
Mother
Me
Hope
" 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. "
Ellen Barkin
Me
Good
Friend
" I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things. "
Ellen Barkin
People
Think
Remember
" I would love to do a television show in New York City. "
Ellen Barkin
City
New York
Television
" 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
" 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. "
Ellen Barkin
Said
Son
Eyes
" 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 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. "
Ellen Barkin
Work
Me
Husband
" There is a certain androgyny to my appeal. "
Ellen Barkin
Certain
Androgyny
Appeal
" I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it? "
Ellen Barkin
Look
Want
Problem
" I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds. "
Ellen Barkin
Genes
Pounds
Skinny
" My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three. "
Ellen Barkin
He
Cook
Three
" My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.' "
Ellen Barkin
Nickname
Bones
Skin
" No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind. "
Ellen Barkin
Stop
Film
Me
" 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. "
Ellen Barkin
Treat
Woman
Picture
" 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
" When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child. "
Ellen Barkin
She
Child
Looking
" 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. "
Ellen Barkin
Acting
Secrets
Matter
" Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. "
Ellen Barkin
Women
Who
Respect
" 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? "
Ellen Barkin
Child
Skills
Parent
" 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
" I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe. "
Ellen Barkin
Wear
Feet
Hands
" 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. "
Ellen Barkin
Men
Girl
Me
" A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead. "
Ellen Barkin
You
Successful
Marriage