Quote by Ellen Barkin
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. - Ellen Barkin

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. – Ellen Barkin

Other quotes by Ellen Barkin

When they make a womans picture, they treat it like a womans picture. In the 40s, they didnt treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. Im upset that theres no Terminator with a woman in Arnold Schwarzeneggers role. Because that would make just as much money. – Ellen Barkin

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movies
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Skinniness is not your friend when youre over 40. Id like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldnt look at myself. – Ellen Barkin

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movies
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Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. – Ellen Barkin

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respect
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Actors, Acting
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The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, theres a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor youll be. Youll have more to pull on. – Jacqueline Bisset

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Actors, Acting

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. – Roland Barthes

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Actors, Acting

It is not whether you really cry. Its whether the audience thinks you are crying. – Ingrid Bergman

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The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. – Thomas Campbell

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Actors, Acting

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