Dukakis, Olympia Filmography

• Geraldine Page: Stages of a Dream
  2014, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Secret of the Gods
  2014, role: actress , character name: Nadira Repmant
• Outliving Emily
  2014, role: actress , character name: Emily
• A Little Game
  2013, role: actress , character name: YaYa
• Beneath the Olive Tree
  2013, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• The Christmas Spirit
  2013, role: actress , character name: Gwen Hollander
• The Last Keepers
  2013, role: actress , character name: Rosmarie Carver
• Beneath the Olive Tree
  2013, role: producer
• The Austin Pendleton Project
  2013, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Misadventures of the Dunderheads
  2012, role: actress , character name: Ira
• Birds of a Feather
  2011, role: actress , character name: Olympia
• Outliving Emily
  2011, role: actress , character name: Emily Hanratty
• Montana Amazon
  2011, role: producer
• Montana Amazon
  2011, role: actress , character name: Ira
• Cloudburst
  2011, role: actress , character name: Stella
• Dottie's Thanksgiving Pickle
  2010, role: actress , character name: Mother Rose
• The Golden Greek: The Harry Agganis Story
  2010, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Poor Things
  2010, role: actress
• Joe Papp in Five Acts
  2010, role: actress
• I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Non-Disclosure: Haunted
  2009, role: actress , character name: Evelyn Lemon
• The Promise of Tomorow 1940-1960
  2009, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Hove (The Wind)
  2009, role: actress , character name: Zara
• The Promise of Tomorow 1940-1960
  2009, role: actress , character name: Host
• Greatest Ever Romantic Movies
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Greatest Ever 80s Movies
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• In the Land of Women
  2007, role: actress , character name: Phyllis
• The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
  2006, role: actress , character name: Margie Carsen
• Day on Fire
  2006, role: actress , character name: Dr. Mary Wade
• Jesus, Mary and Joey
  2006, role: actress , character name: Sophia Vitello
• CMT Greatest Moments: Dolly Parton
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Upside Out
  2006, role: actress , character name: Dr. Walker
• Away from Her
  2006, role: actress , character name: Marian
• The Thing About My Folks
  2005, role: actress , character name: Muriel Kleinman
• Whiskey School
  2005, role: actress , character name: Ellen Haywood
• La Marató 2005
  2005, role: actress , character name: Bette Tremont
• 3 Needles
  2005, role: actress , character name: Hilde the Missionary Nun
• The Great New Wonderful
  2005, role: actress , character name: Judy Hillerman
• Signs Out of Time: The Life of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
  2004, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
  2004, role: actress , character name: Margie Carsen
• Cher: The Farewell Tour
  2003, role: actress , character name: Rose Castorini
• Charlie's War
  2003, role: actress , character name: Charlie
• Mafia Doctor
  2003, role: actress , character name: Rose
• The Event
  2003, role: actress , character name: Lila
• The Intended
  2002, role: actress , character name: Erina
• Still Cher
  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Greeks of Southern California: Through the Century - The Pioneers 1900 -1942
  2002, role: actress
• Guilty Hearts
  2002, role: actress , character name: Amanda Patterson
• And Never Let Her Go
  2001, role: actress , character name: Marguerite Capano
• My Beautiful Son
  2001, role: actress , character name: Esther Lipman

Famous quotes by Olympia Dukakis:

"The staying power is very mercurial. [Stars] have to really keep analyzing where they're at and what's happening and what they're doing and what they should be doing."

"Moonstruck"

"Don't believe everything you read. Maybe I meant it though. People change... people don't change, they change their expectations."

"[Premiere found The Red Shoes, about a young ballerina torn between love and career,] weighed down by heavy-handed direction and blatant melodrama. ... childish, selfish, ridiculously neurotic."

"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."

"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin."

"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"

"My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am."

"When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary."

"The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain."

"So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today."

"I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness."

"Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth."

"Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve."

"Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA."

"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."

"I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk."

"I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do."

"Winning is everything in Hollywood."

"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you."