Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Madeline Kahn

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Madeline Kahn.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Madeline Gail Kahn was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974).

American - Actress | September 29, 1942 - December 3, 1999

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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

Madeline Kahn

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

Madeline Kahn

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

Madeline Kahn

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Madeline Kahn

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

Madeline Kahn

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

Madeline Kahn

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

Madeline Kahn

Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

Madeline Kahn

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

Madeline Kahn

I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.

Madeline Kahn

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

Madeline Kahn

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

Madeline Kahn

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

Madeline Kahn

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

Madeline Kahn

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

Madeline Kahn