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Top 15 Ellen Burstyn Quotes (2025 Update)

Ellen Burstyn Quote: “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”

1. “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”

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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.”

2. “Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.”

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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “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.”

3. “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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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “Everything gets old if you do it often enough.”

4. “Everything gets old if you do it often enough.”

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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “To me, it’s a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.”

5. “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 Quote: “I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.”

6. “I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.”

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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “I do like to work with young directors because it’s such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.”

7. “I do like to work with young directors because it’s such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.”

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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.”

9. “When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.”

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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “I’ve lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.”

10. “I’ve lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.”

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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “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!”

11. “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!”

— Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn Quote: “It’s a sin to have your films not to make money.”

12. “It’s a sin to have your films not to make money.”

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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “Well my taste wasn’t very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.”

13. “Well my taste wasn’t very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.”

— Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn Quote: “I had a dream that I was being drowned in a flood and I realized it was a flood of people.”

16. “I had a dream that I was being drowned in a flood and I realized it was a flood of people.”

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Ellen Burstyn Quote: “Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, ‘Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?’”

17. “Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, ‘Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?’”

— Ellen Burstyn

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