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Ellen Burstyn

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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.


— Ellen Burstyn


#brooklyn #close #i #life #live

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.


— Ellen Burstyn


#make #money #sin #your

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.


— Ellen Burstyn


#awhile #been #couple #getting #i

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.


— Ellen Burstyn


#get #go #high #leave #nobody

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


#doing #find #first #first time #fresh

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.


— Ellen Burstyn


#children #enough #feed #food #getting

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


#i #killed #literally #new #new york

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.


— Ellen Burstyn


#film #him #i #me #moral

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


#actress #admire #appreciate #art #began






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NBC pulled the series from its lineup after four episodes but did not publicly give a reason for doing so. In 2009 Ellen Burstyn won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of the bipolar estranged mother of Detective Elliot Stabler on NBC's police procedural Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Burstyn's performance in the acclaimed 1971 ensemble drama The Last Picture Show brought her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination after which Ellen Burstyn moved from supporting to leading film and stage roles. Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s and over the next decade included several films and television series. Burstyn has worked consistently in film television and theatre since receiving multiple awards and nominations along the way including seven additional Golden Globe Award nominations five Emmy Award nominations (one win) and two more Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in the films Resurrection (1980) and Requiem for a Dream (2000).

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