Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstynis an American actress. Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next decade included several films and television series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 December 1932
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
awful bleeding jerusalem school teacher
It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn't make an awful lot of sense to me.
season thrilled
We are thrilled that 'Inside the Actors Studio' will have a 12th season on Bravo,
career forward seeing
just incredible. I look forward to seeing his career unfold.
good script universal
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.
fairly goes loses pounds totally wearing
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.
central children work
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.
Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
feed food life money table
Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.
life lived narrow outlook patterns talked women
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
glance happened saw side ugliest
So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'
cow time
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.
either fat physically severe wearing
But I was always uncomfortable in that. Physically uncomfortable. Either from the fat suit, or the neck, or my severe dieting. Or wearing the camera.
alone discover lovely surprise
What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be
actress famine feast life maybe steady time
When you've been an actress for 45 years as I have, it's a feast or famine life and I thought that maybe it was time now to have a steady gig!