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Ellen Burstyn

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

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Donna Grant

"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

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Donna Grant

"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."

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Donna Grant

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

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Donna Grant

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

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Donna Grant

"I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos."

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Donna Grant

"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."

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Donna Grant

"It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing."

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Donna Grant

"So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!"

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Donna Grant

"I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective."

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Ellen Burstyn
"I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far."

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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 think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film."

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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
"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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Ellen Burstyn
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."

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

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Ellen Burstyn
"The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time."

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