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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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"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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Donna Grant

"I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime."

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Donna Grant

"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."

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Donna Grant

"No, my son's a songwriter and he does that."

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Donna Grant

"My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness."

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Donna Grant

"My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names."

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Donna Grant

"I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season."

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Donna Grant

"I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people."

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Donna Grant

"Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons."

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Donna Grant

"I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too."

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Donna Grant

"My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show."

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

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

Son

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

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