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

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"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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"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

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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Aberjhani

"The world system is employment."

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Aberjhani

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

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Aberjhani

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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Aberjhani

"Do not be weary to make money."

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Aberjhani

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

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Aberjhani

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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Aberjhani

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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