Olympia Dukakis

Dukakis, Olympia Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Geraldine Page: Stages of a Dream

  2014, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Secret of the Gods

  2014, role: actress , character name: Nadira Repmant
• Play in Full Screen Outliving Emily

  2014, role: actress , character name: Emily
• Play in Full Screen A Little Game

  2013, role: actress , character name: YaYa
• Play in Full Screen Beneath the Olive Tree

  2013, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen The Christmas Spirit

  2013, role: actress , character name: Gwen Hollander
• Play in Full Screen The Last Keepers

  2013, role: actress , character name: Rosmarie Carver
• Play in Full Screen Beneath the Olive Tree

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Austin Pendleton Project

  2013, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Misadventures of the Dunderheads

  2012, role: actress , character name: Ira
• Play in Full Screen Birds of a Feather

  2011, role: actress , character name: Olympia
• Play in Full Screen Outliving Emily

  2011, role: actress , character name: Emily Hanratty
• Play in Full Screen Montana Amazon

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Montana Amazon

  2011, role: actress , character name: Ira
• Play in Full Screen Cloudburst

  2011, role: actress , character name: Stella
• Play in Full Screen Dottie's Thanksgiving Pickle

  2010, role: actress , character name: Mother Rose
• Play in Full Screen The Golden Greek: The Harry Agganis Story

  2010, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Poor Things

  2010, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Joe Papp in Five Acts

  2010, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Non-Disclosure: Haunted

  2009, role: actress , character name: Evelyn Lemon
• Play in Full Screen The Promise of Tomorow 1940-1960

  2009, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Hove (The Wind)

  2009, role: actress , character name: Zara
• Play in Full Screen The Promise of Tomorow 1940-1960

  2009, role: actress , character name: Host
• Play in Full Screen Greatest Ever Romantic Movies

  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Greatest Ever 80s Movies

  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen In the Land of Women

  2007, role: actress , character name: Phyllis
• Play in Full Screen The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

  2006, role: actress , character name: Margie Carsen
• Play in Full Screen Day on Fire

  2006, role: actress , character name: Dr. Mary Wade
• Play in Full Screen Jesus, Mary and Joey

  2006, role: actress , character name: Sophia Vitello
• Play in Full Screen CMT Greatest Moments: Dolly Parton

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Upside Out

  2006, role: actress , character name: Dr. Walker
• Play in Full Screen Away from Her

  2006, role: actress , character name: Marian
• Play in Full Screen The Thing About My Folks

  2005, role: actress , character name: Muriel Kleinman
• Play in Full Screen Whiskey School

  2005, role: actress , character name: Ellen Haywood
• Play in Full Screen La Marató 2005

  2005, role: actress , character name: Bette Tremont
• Play in Full Screen 3 Needles

  2005, role: actress , character name: Hilde the Missionary Nun
• Play in Full Screen The Great New Wonderful

  2005, role: actress , character name: Judy Hillerman
• Play in Full Screen Signs Out of Time: The Life of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas

  2004, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

  2004, role: actress , character name: Margie Carsen
• Play in Full Screen Cher: The Farewell Tour

  2003, role: actress , character name: Rose Castorini
• Play in Full Screen Charlie's War

  2003, role: actress , character name: Charlie
• Play in Full Screen Mafia Doctor

  2003, role: actress , character name: Rose
• Play in Full Screen The Event

  2003, role: actress , character name: Lila
• Play in Full Screen The Intended

  2002, role: actress , character name: Erina
• Play in Full Screen Still Cher

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Greeks of Southern California: Through the Century - The Pioneers 1900 -1942

  2002, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Guilty Hearts

  2002, role: actress , character name: Amanda Patterson
• Play in Full Screen And Never Let Her Go

  2001, role: actress , character name: Marguerite Capano
• Play in Full Screen 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."