Ellen Barkin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?”

“I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.”

“I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.”

“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.”

“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.”

“'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.”

“My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.”

“I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.”

“I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.”