A Quote by Ellen Burstyn

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

Ellen Burstyn

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Ellen Burstyn
American - Actress
Born: December 7, 1932

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

Gene Luen Yang

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...

Steven Morrissey

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

Steven Morrissey

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

Joan Van Ark

I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about her, but I recall that she immediately took on a definite importance for me. I wanted to sacrifice my life for my country. It seems like foolishness and yet...what happens when we're children is engraved forever on our lives.

Indira Gandhi

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

Elizabeth George

I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.

Sabine Baring-Gould

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Larry Gatlin

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

E. Jean Carroll

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

Maureen O'Hara

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Joan Van Ark

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

Gracie Allen

I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.

Lena Headey

Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.

Kathryn Harrison

One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.

Kathryn Harrison

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

Charles Bukowski

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