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My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.
Ellen Barkin
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Ellen Barkin
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 16
Actress
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The Bronx
New York City
Ellen Rona Barkin
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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.
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There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.
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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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I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.
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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.
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I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.
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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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My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.
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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.
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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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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
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There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.
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Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.
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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.
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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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My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.
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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.
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I don’t want to be a mentor in my bedroom.
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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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Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.
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