Ellen Burstyn movie quotes

“- Flemming: Don't you miss having someone to love?
- Adaline Bowman: It's not the same when there's no growing old together. Without that, love is just heartbreak.”
Ellen Burstyn - Flemming
Blake Lively - Adaline Bowman

“- Sara Goldfarb: How come you know more about medicine than a doctor?
- Harry Goldfarb: Believe me, Ma: I know.”
Ellen Burstyn - Sara Goldfarb
Jared Leto - Harry Goldfarb

“What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be.”
Ellen Burstyn

“- Sara Goldfarb: I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me. I'll tell them about you, and your father, how good he was to us. Remember? It's a reason to get up in the morning. It's a reason to lose weight, to fit in the red dress. It's a reason to smile. It makes tomorrow all right....” (continue)(continue reading)
Ellen Burstyn - Sara Goldfarb
Jared Leto - Harry Goldfarb

“She needs help. She doesn’t know what she’s doing. I mean, she’s just piling mistake upon mistake. That’s why it’s our job to show her what’s right.”
Ellen Burstyn - Elizabeth

“- Adaline Bowman: I see you already forgot our little talk about sodium.
- Flemming: No, I am simply choosing to ignore it.”
Blake Lively - Adaline Bowman
Ellen Burstyn - Flemming

“- Flemming: Remember that? 1954, I was a junior in college. That's the last photo I have of you.
- Adaline Bowman: Well, you've seen one, you've seen 'em all.”
Ellen Burstyn - Flemming
Blake Lively - Adaline Bowman

“Until I forget my name or start drooling at the mouth, I'll thank you to let me make my own decisions.”
Ellen Burstyn - Hannah Ferguson

“The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.”
Ellen Burstyn

“It's a sin to have your films not to make money.”
Ellen Burstyn

“- Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker: I tried to be the best momma I could.
- Connor McGill: How did that go?
- Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker: Not so hot.”
Ellen Burstyn - Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker
Angus Macfadyen - Connor McGill

- George Peters: I can't remember the name of your favorite perfume; I've racked my brain and I can't remember it.
- Doris: That's funny, it's "My Sin".
Alan Alda - George Peters
Ellen Burstyn - Doris

“- George Peters: Did you know we've made love 113 times?
- Doris: What?
- George Peters: I figured that out on my Bowmar calculator.”
Alan Alda - George Peters
Ellen Burstyn - Doris

“- Doris: Oh, good, he didn't ask about the girdle.
- George Peters: What?
- Doris: The girdle!
- George Peters: Oh, great! Now he probably thinks I'm a homo!”

Ellen Burstyn - Doris
Alan Alda - George Peters

“- George Peters: First time I had sex I was 18 years old. We were in the back seat of a parked 1938 Dodge Sedan. Right in the middle of it, we were rear-ended.
- Doris: Oh, and you didn't have any insurance?
- George Peters: No. That's not exactly what I mean. I mean, look... take last night. Do you know what the radio was playing while we were...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alan Alda - George Peters
Ellen Burstyn - Doris

“- Barbara Bush: The fact is you can't win.
- George W. Bush: Why do you say that?
- Barbara Bush: Because you're too much like me. You're loud, and you've got a short fuse. Now, Jeb is like your father. He thinks before he speaks.”
Ellen Burstyn - Barbara Bush
Josh Brolin - George W. Bush

“- George Peters: When It comes to life, I've got a brown thumb.
- Doris: What do you mean?
- George Peters: I mean that nothing I ever do turns out right.”
Alan Alda - George Peters
Ellen Burstyn - Doris

“- Doris: You know, I can really talk to you. It's just amazing. I find myself saying things to you that I didn't even know I thought. I noticed that yesterday right after we met in the restaurant.
- George Peters: We had instant rapport. Did you notice that too?
- Doris: No. But I know we really hit it off.”
Ellen Burstyn - Doris
Alan Alda - George Peters

“- Doris: I got pregnant when I was just 18. So I've never really had any time to just think. You know, I mean about... well, what I think about. Never mind. I don't know what I am trying to say. Some times I think I am crazy.
- George Peters: Why?
-Doris: Well, Ok, like take my life. Now, We live in a 2-bedroom duplex in downtown Oakland and we...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ellen Burstyn - Doris
Alan Alda - George Peters

“- George Peters: Why do you have to look so luminous? I mean, it'd make things so much easier if you woke up with puffy eyes and blotchy skin like everyone else.
- Doris: Guess God thought chubby thighs were enough.”
Alan Alda - George Peters
Ellen Burstyn - Doris

“- George Peters: Doris, what the hell is the matter?
- Doris: If memory serves me correctly, I just had a labor pain.
- George Peters: You can't have. It must be indigestion.
- Doris: No, there's a difference. Indigestion doesn't make you eyes bug out.”
Alan Alda - George Peters
Ellen Burstyn - Doris

“I will only smoke once... a day. And I will only have a drink once a week… I mean a day.”
Ellen Burstyn - Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker

“- Mark: This is a hell of a way for you to find out.
- Mildred: Find out what?
- Mark: Well, that I'm gay for one thing... come on, you never suspected?
- Mildred: You were always so good at sports.”
Jay Mohr - Mark
Ellen Burstyn - Mildred

“- George Peters: When I touched you just now, I started to get excited. What kind of a pervert am I? Staring at a 200 pound pregnant woman, and I'm getting hot!
- Doris: Well, I'll tell you something. That is about the nicest thing that anybody's said to me in months.”
Alan Alda - George Peters
Ellen Burstyn - Doris

“I take a problem and chew on it 'til all the flavor's gone, and then stick it in my hair.”
Ellen Burstyn - Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker