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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

Topics: Captures Caught Character Construction Does Done Down Else Film Her Hope How Kind Laborer Like Me Method Mother Onstage She Talented Then Think Trained Universe Whatever Work Yes You

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Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd 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 couldn't look at myself.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Always Did Face Fat Friend Gain Good Like Look Make Me Movies Myself Over Pounds Round Started You Young Your

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It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Always Been Broken Clear Crooked Face Fix Front Girl Had Knocked Like Looks Me Never Nose Out People Pretty Pretty Girl Red Smile Teeth Them Times Two Until Whole

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My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.'

~Ellen Barkin

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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

Topics: Acting Aside Ballerina Being Build Craft Gift How Know Level Like May Method Obliged Table Taught Teachers Trained Violinist Were Whatever You

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Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: About Acting Come Dance Feel Felt Hand Just Lake My Own Own Put Shoes Some Swan Taught Toe Violin Way Would You Your

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My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Did Diner First Good Good Work Mercies Movie Really Second Tender Work

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The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Audience Audience Member Bad Either Given Good Hollywood Honesty Member Miss Motherhood Mothers Movies Real Think Voice Way You I Think

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I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Acting Actor Arts Audition Before High High School Lee Performing Performing Arts School Studied Studio Teachers Years

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But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Access Anger Could Did Expressing Film Had Hard Hardest How Intimacy Issues Learn Me My Own Own Personal Stage Things

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: April 16th, 1955

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