73 Quotes by Ellen Barkin

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.

I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don't want to look crazy. And I don't like not being able to tell how old someone is: It's creepy.

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.

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

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.

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

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

no one attended the wedding because of that.

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.