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'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.

~Ellen Barkin

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The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Become Like More Myself People Powerful Some Some People Stick Up Woman You

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I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Actor After Audition Auditions Awhile Come Embarrassing Go Had Humiliated Just Laziness Lazy Like Looking Lot Me More Never Out People Places Say Sure Than Therapy Though Too Turn Very Visible Were Where Would Years

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When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Arnold As Much Money Because Big Joan Just Just As Much Like Make Money Movies Much Picture Role Schwarzenegger Treat Upset Woman Would Year

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It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.

~Ellen Barkin

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I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Age Am Anyone Anyone Else Because Before Bra Burn Came Crest Either Else Feminists Fight Fighting First Fought Gender Just Limited Profound Rode Seconds Should Sort Think Those Womanhood Women I Am I Came

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There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

~Ellen Barkin

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I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

~Ellen Barkin

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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

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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

Topics: Afraid Anyone Around Based Country Does Fear Going Hopefully Just Learn Like Live Look Me Much Nothing Other Scary Sex Talk Them Walk Who Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: April 16th, 1955

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