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" Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high. "
Ellen Burstyn
Film
Want
High
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" The real work of an actor goes on inside, and I don't think it changes from director to director - I always go for broke! But I don't get a lot of direction, unfortunately. "
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" What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. "
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" We can all live longer, better, than we ever could before. You don't have to retire. "
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" There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted. "
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" What happens is you submit your script with an idea of what the budget might be, and the financier will offer you less than that. In order to do it for less, it means cutting out the art, usually. "
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" I've always wanted to work with my friend Al Pacino. "
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" 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. "
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" She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings. "
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" I eat healthily and exercise, and I'm not giving up and saying I'm too old - I'm just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity. "
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Curiosity
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" It's interesting: John Calley at Warner Bros. helped me put 'Alice' together. It was very unusual back then for a studio to support an actress the way he backed and supported me. He even asked me if I wanted to direct the film, which I didn't feel prepared to at that point. "
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Me
" 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!' "
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Actor
Stage
" I've never done anything in my career that has gotten as much attention as 'House of Cards.' "
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House
Cards
Career
" My mother was very glamorous. She was very beautiful, and she had a lot of friends; she was fun and loved to drink. "
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Fun
Beautiful
Friends
" With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave him the money he needed to make the film. He cast it with the actors that he thought were right for the parts. Now, it's the reverse. "
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" I'm always learning and trying new things. When you stop learning, you start dying. "
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New Things
Trying
You
" 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. "
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Son
Character
Reality
" 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. "
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Mind
Fat
She
" 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. "
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Kind
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" When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William Shakespeare. The play I read on that journey was 'Titus Andronicus.' "
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Play
" Today, people like Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep have vowed to improve the opportunities for women, but those promises are still unusual. "
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Women
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" I was doing the work I was capable of doing with my own native talent, but when I looked at actors like Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, Kim Stanley, and Geraldine Page, I knew that they knew something that I didn't know. I wanted to find out what that was. "
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" They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed. "
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" I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there's any purpose to our being here. "
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World
Purpose
Learn
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" I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being. "
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" 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. "
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Life
" I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best. "
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