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Ellen Burstyn

"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it."

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"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it."

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Ellen Burstyn
"It's a sin to have your films not to make money."

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Ellen Burstyn
"Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high."

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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."

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Ellen Burstyn
"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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Ellen Burstyn
"She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings."

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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!"

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Ellen Burstyn
"Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'"

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

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Ellen Burstyn
"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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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."

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Aberjhani

"If music be the food of love, play on."

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Aberjhani

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

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Aberjhani

"A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?"

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Aberjhani

"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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Aberjhani

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

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Aberjhani

"We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs..."

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Aberjhani

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

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Aberjhani

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

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Aberjhani

"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

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Aberjhani

"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."

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