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"Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself."

Ellen Barkin on Movies

More quotes about Movies

  • "Film spectators are quiet vampires."

    Jim Morrison on Movies

  • "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."

    Johnny Depp on Movies

  • "You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

    Steve Martin on Movies

  • "This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."

    Clint Eastwood on Movies

  • "Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

    Walt Disney on Movies

More quotes by Ellen Barkin

  • "But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that."

  • "With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of."

  • "I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage."

  • "Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me."

  • "A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead."

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