Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin
Ellen Rona Barkin is an American actress and film producer. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 comedy-drama film Diner, and the following years she had starring roles in films include Tender Mercies, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, and The Big Easy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 April 1954
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
teacher acting levels
I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.
ambition wish roles
I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.
house littles events
I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.
sex children couple
I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?
mother eye son
When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.
husband thinking three
My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.
mother baby children
When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.
technology thinking use
There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.
mentor want bedroom
I don’t want to be a mentor in my bedroom...
thank-you stars one-day
There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'
smile girl two
It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.
meaningful kids emotional
I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.
mistake back-again wanted
You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.
powerful people sticks
The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.