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

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"The world system is employment."

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

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"Do not be weary to make money."

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

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

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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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"Do all the work you while you still have strength."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high."
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"I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is."
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