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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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"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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Asa Don Brown

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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Asa Don Brown

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

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Asa Don Brown

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

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Asa Don Brown

"Knowledge is intellectual art."

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Asa Don Brown

"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."

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Asa Don Brown

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

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Asa Don Brown

"Knowledge is life."

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Asa Don Brown

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

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Asa Don Brown

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."

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Asa Don Brown

"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

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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 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."

Thought

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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
"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 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
"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
"They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed."

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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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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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