“I just love the black and white movies.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“It’s hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.”
― Carol Kane
“Acting is pretty much my whole life.”
― Carol Kane
“I don’t feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.”
― Carol Kane
“It’s very hard to remain a student in life.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.”
― Carol Kane
“And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can’t do anything wrong because you’re doing everything right.”
― Carol Kane
“I don’t put together cars, I put together people.”
― Carol Kane
“I know I’ll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.”
― Carol Kane
“The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.”
― Carol Kane
“If they give you good words to say, and you don’t get in the way of them, you’ll be OK.”
― Carol Kane
“I don’t like that I’m my own commodity, that I am what I sell.”
― Carol Kane
“Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.”
― Carol Kane
“I have fun at work.”
― Carol Kane
“I make my relationships at work.”
― Carol Kane
“My face is my career.”
― Carol Kane
“I only eat things that you don’t have to kill.”
― Carol Kane
“There is no restaurant anywhere in the world where I have been that I haven’t been able to find something to eat.”
― Carol Kane
“Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.”
― Carol Kane
“I didn’t decide to be a character actress.”
― Carol Kane
“I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.”
― Carol Kane
“It’s totally mystifying to me how anyone could have canceled ‘Taxi.’ I don’t understand it because that stuff is rare.”
― Carol Kane
“I was this extremely dramatic actress. And then, suddenly, I was doing comedy.”
― Carol Kane
“’Taxi’ made a big difference because it got me into comedy.”
― Carol Kane
“When you’re doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it’s considered a big cast.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“This is a grueling profession. Either you can’t get work, or you can’t get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it’s not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“My first movie was with Mike Nichols.”
― Carol Kane
“All of our ancestors came from somewhere.”
― Carol Kane
“I know that I’m in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!”
― Carol Kane
“I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.”
― Carol Kane
“I like the full spectrum of roles.”
― Carol Kane
“It’s like life: you have both comedy and drama. There’s a balance, and I’m lucky enough to have it in my work.”
― Carol Kane
“I think it’s nourishing to do both comedy and drama.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.”
― Carol Kane
“I happen to think I look best in black.”
― Carol Kane
“As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I’ve crossed and realize that it was a mine field.”
― Carol Kane
“This profession has no rhythm to it – you’re either busy enough to fall down, or nothing’s happening!”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“’Hester Street’ was my most complete character study, but ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Last Detail’ were also great.”
― Carol Kane
“All of my films have changed my life. I’ve met so many people and broadened my world view.”
― Carol Kane
“I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character – not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“’Hester Street’ was an incredible opportunity for me. That script was such an incredible script.”
― Carol Kane
“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!”
― Carol Kane
“I don’t think, ‘Oh, you know, I’m crazy and zany.’”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.”
― Carol Kane
“In high school, I did the ‘The Tempest’ at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.”
― Carol Kane
“I am a very simple cook, I just do the minimum amount. I’m mostly a vegetarian, so I just steam a lot of vegetables.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“I don’t regret what I’ve done but some of the things I didn’t do.”
― Carol Kane
“In my experience, each project is what it is, and nothing is necessarily a turning point.”
― Carol Kane
“There’s nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That’s what it means to be in this profession.”
― Carol Kane
“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!”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“You just can’t make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it’s almost done.”
― Carol Kane
“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.’”
― Carol Kane
“My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don’t care where it is.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“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.”
― Carol Kane
“I don’t like to objectify the people I play. I always try to go for the truth in any part.”
― Carol Kane
“I was taught by a lot of great comedy writers to go for the reality in a role, and the comedy will come through.”
― Carol Kane
“I think most actors are very impressionable, and that’s part of what we do is soak up other’s behavior.”
― Carol Kane
“While filming ‘Annie Hall,’ I never really hung out with Woody Allen.”
― Carol Kane
“Buses and subways are this remarkable social club. You talk to people you wouldn’t normally talk to.”
― Carol Kane
“I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn’t in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.”
― Carol Kane
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