Top 55 Carol Kane Quotes

I don’t like somebody saying to me in their performance, ‘Look at this. Isn’t this funny?’ I pray that I don’t do that. I’m sure I fall off the horse every once in a while, but I try not to.

In my experience, each project is what it is, and nothing is necessarily a turning point.

New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there’s something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to go to L.A. for work, when I’d come back and get off the plane and be driving towards the landscape of the city, I’d be beside myself with joy. It doesn’t matter how many times!

‘Hester Street‘ was my most complete character study, but ‘Annie Hall‘ and ‘The Last Detail’ were also great.

An actor really suffers when the director isn’t prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

I don’t like to objectify the people I play. I always try to go for the truth in any part.

I don’t like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I’m afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

I don’t think, ‘Oh, you know, I’m crazy and zany.’

I guess I’m lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first, and then I moved into film, also very young, and when I did ‘Taxi,’ for instance, it was live in front of an audience but also filmed; that was a fun combination.

All of our ancestors came from somewhere.

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don’t care where it is.

I know I’ll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

That’s when the great stuff happens, when you’re not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

There are directors who don’t cast you for the way you act but for the way you are, the way you behave around the dinner table.

When I had my dogs, I used to spend a lot of time in Central Park, which is a great place to be alone among a lot of people.

I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.

For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.

All of my films have changed my life. I’ve met so many people and broadened my world view.

Life is very cyclical. And my career has been very-high-very-low, very-high-very-low, and I think it’ll probably keep on rolling that way.

A goal of mine is to try and be as real as possible. To try and not comment on the work I’m doing but just do it.

I only eat things that you don’t have to kill.

If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don’t! I don’t have those capabilities.

While filming ‘Annie Hall,’ I never really hung out with Woody Allen.

I was this extremely dramatic actress. And then, suddenly, I was doing comedy.

I don’t feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

There is no restaurant anywhere in the world where I have been that I haven‘t been able to find something to eat.

I don’t like that I’m my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I know that I’m in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!

For me, the most important thing is the writing – and certainly the director. But if the writing isn’t there, it doesn’t matter who the director is!

It’s totally mystifying to me how anyone could have canceled ‘Taxi.’ I don’t understand it because that stuff is rare.

The thing about the four-camera shows is that it’s kind of a great combo of theater and film. You have an audience, but you have a camera to capture things, so that’s a great thing, too.

I’m one of those people that if I go to a party, I can’t remember my mother‘s name because I’m so nervous in a social situation.

‘Taxi’ made a big difference because it got me into comedy.

My face is my career.

I don’t put together cars, I put together people.

You just can’t make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it’s almost done.

It’s hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

It’s very hard to remain a student in life.

I don’t regret what I’ve done but some of the things I didn’t do.

If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don’t regret, even about bad choices, is that there’s always something you can get out of it.

I think it’s nourishing to do both comedy and drama.

There’s nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That’s what it means to be in this profession.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I’ve crossed and realize that it was a mine field.

I didn’t know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about seven. I saw a play, like most kids do, at a children‘s theater in Cleveland, and I just saw them up there, and I thought, ‘that’s where I want to be.’

I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.

I was taught by a lot of great comedy writers to go for the reality in a role, and the comedy will come through.

My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

I’ve been lucky in my career. I’ve worked with some of the greatest filmmakers and actors around. I’m so proud of some of my work.

I think therapy can be very revealing and useful for actors. You start to dig deep and understand certain mechanisms that you hadn’t been aware of before and, you know, meanings behind things.

This profession has no rhythm to it – you’re either busy enough to fall down, or nothing’s happening!

In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.

You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can’t fake if the story isn’t there and if the writing isn’t good.