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I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Bag Big Cheese Chicken Cookies Dressed Eat Every Every Night Fried Fried Chicken Gain Gain Weight Long Look Lot Night Ok Still Weight

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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.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Enough Four Grandchildren Guess Husband Kind Leave Lucky Me More Much My Own Own Pay Rent Seriously Six Take Takes Teenagers Then Two Work You Your

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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.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Choice Cute Daughter Family Gives Good Good Mother Got Her Hippie Kind Love Mother Movie No Choice No Love Painter Pro-Choice Pro-Life Really Seems Sweet Where You

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I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.'

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Also Big Bronx First Hand Jew Just Know Me New New York Quality Raise Really Say Says Something Tell Tenacious Think Where Yes York You I Think I Can

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Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Enormous Love Men Mothers Respect Treat Who Women Wonderfully

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I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Again Am Being Discover Hard Look No Problem Problem Seem Too Tried Uncomfortable Want Who Why Would Younger I Am I Tried

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I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Event Extreme Go Homebody House Leave Like Little More Really Some Than Unless

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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Acting Away Giving Matter Secrets

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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.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Ball Could Dicaprio Eyes Had Leo Leonardo Like Liked Look Mother Nose Played Rounded Said Son Very

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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.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Baby Child Desperately Gives Kind Looking Love Mother She Unconditional Unconditional Love Wants

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: April 16th, 1955

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