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Ellen Burstyn

"To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it."

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"To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it."

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"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."

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"He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world."

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"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."

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"A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son."

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"The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently."

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"To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison."

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"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."

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"Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry."

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"With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia."

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