69 Quotes by Ellen Burstyn

The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden in Rockland County on the Hudson River in the 1980s. I had all the actors from the Actors Studio come out, and we made our own costumes.

Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.

What happens is you submit your script with an idea of what the budget might be, and the financier will offer you less than that. In order to do it for less, it means cutting out the art, usually.

I've never done anything in my career that has gotten as much attention as 'House of Cards.'

When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William Shakespeare. The play I read on that journey was 'Titus Andronicus.'

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

We can all live longer, better, than we ever could before. You don't have to retire.

I eat healthily and exercise, and I'm not giving up and saying I'm too old - I'm just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.