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Ellen Burstyn Quotes

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.

Ellen Burstyn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1932

Topics

Good Story Said Want Director Out

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

Jim DeMint

Business Best World America Place

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

Jerry Seinfeld

Mistake Why Here Us Replace Babies

I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.

John Grant

Music Strong Acting Seem Attracted

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

John Murray

See Only Themselves Athletes

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.

Merle Haggard

Writing Choice Want Seems Because

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

Spike Jonze

You True Order Involved Film Relate

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

Spike Lee

Education Children Art College Class

Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.

Miguel Nicolelis

Change Brain Self Electricity Body

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

Lord Hailsham

Power Politics Always Soft Center

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

Josh Hutcherson

Good Time Training Me Eating Diet

'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of.

Jonathan Groff

Me Looking Conversation Television

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

Chuck Close

Lie Space Painting Media Magic Most