Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Julie Kavner.
Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Julie Deborah Kavner is an American actress and comedian. Best known for her voice role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, Kavner first attracted notice for her role as Brenda Morgenstern, the younger sister of Valerie Harper's title character in the sitcom Rhoda, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also voices other characters for The Simpsons, including Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier, and sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier.
That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.
I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.
Don't ask me about Beverly Hills High School. Everybody hated it. I hated it. Hated it. Hated it. Hated it.
I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.
I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.
I have had friends for years who have never seen my house.
When I was a kid I would get upset when people laughed at me when I didn't mean to be funny. I would always hear,'We're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you.' But I would say, 'I'm not laughing.