See, everybody thinks acting is pretending, and it's the opposite.

You don't go to a great acting teacher to learn how to pretend better.

You go to learn how to tell the truth.

And that's the hardest and most challenging thing to do.

This is death, sex, and money.

Why should I fear death?

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

Sex, six, six.

Where were we?

And need to talk about more.

Oh, I like money.

I'm Anna Sale.

If you're a movie fan, you know Ellen Burstyn.

She's in a lot of the greats.

The last picture show, The Exorcist, Requiem for a Dream.

On TV, there's been Big Love, Louis, Gunsmoke. She even had her own sitcom in the 1980s called The Ellen Burstyn Show.

You get a sense of her central place in acting history, walking the hallway of her apartment.

Tell me what room would you die. The walls are lined with framed awards, certificates, and honorary degrees. But the glitz of this

public life stops at her bedroom door. And that's where we sat down to talk in wicker furniture

next to a huge picture window overlooking Central Park. I love to be among the plant world.

It's New York, so you can sometimes hear buses rumble by below, but it still felt like a warm oasis. It's full of crystals because

they catch the light and reflect the light. The fabrics are purples, aquas, and whites. Playing with

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