Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Carol Kane

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Carol Kane.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Carolyn Laurie Kane is an American actress and comedian. She became known in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as Hester Street, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, Dog Day Afternoon, Annie Hall, and The Princess Bride. She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as Simka Gravas, the wife of Latka, the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work. She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in touring productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2014. From 2015 to 2020, she was a main cast member on the Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, in which she played Lillian Kaushtupper.

American - Actress | Born: June 18, 1952

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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

I make my relationships at work.

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

Carol Kane

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

Carol Kane

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

Carol Kane

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

Carol Kane

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

Carol Kane

I happen to think I look best in black.

Carol Kane

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

Carol Kane

My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

Carol Kane

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

Carol Kane

I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.

Carol Kane

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

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

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

Carol Kane

I like the full spectrum of roles.

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

In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.

Carol Kane

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

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

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

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

Carol Kane

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

Carol Kane

All of our ancestors came from somewhere.

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

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

Carol Kane

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

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

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

Carol Kane

My face is my career.

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 didn't decide to be a character actress.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

'Hester Street' was an incredible opportunity for me. That script was such an incredible script.

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

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

Carol Kane

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

Carol Kane

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

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 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

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

Carol Kane

Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.

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

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

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.