Ellen Barkin Quotes

• "Acting is a matter of giving away secrets."
• "I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren."
• "There was no rehearsal because it's a low budget movie. So they never heard each other talk. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sharon Wilkins, they didn't listen to tapes. And yet if you listen to their voices, they all have the same cadence. They all are in the same kind of range."
• "When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child."
• "When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son."
• "When I saw Being Julia, I thought, Ah, my God, someone, some grown-up has a job to do."
• "You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really."
• "Acting is a matter of giving away secrets."
• "I don't feel the need as a serious actor to do stupid movies just to keep my face out there. Me no likey worky."
• "My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three."