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I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#aside #ballerina #being #build #craft

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent? ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#committed #couple #curious #fit #i

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#church #dream #good #good time #hope

I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#caught #character #construction #does #done

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#anyone #around #based #country #divisiveness

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. ↗

— Mark Twain

#barely #drink #enough #much #sometimes

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#bush #family #got #hey #i

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#basketball #cancer #curing #like #watching

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#bands #began #choirs #church #clarinet

I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#cash #elvis #elvis presley #guy #i