"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?'"

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Source : Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

Ellen Burstyn

#Depressing Quotes #Play Quotes #Drug Quotes

“About Jimi Hendrix - although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and this makes his music much better than if he was just a technical player and singer.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.”
“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.”
“The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians.”
“Sadly, [Pablo Escobar] ended up throwing away the one opportunity he had. I naively thought, as a son and as many other Colombians, that he would take this opportunity to make amends with the country.”
“To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.”
“My father was a writer and an acting teacher.”

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