Madeline Kahn quotes
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“My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.”
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“Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.”
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“Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!”
-- Madeline KahnSource : "Fictional character: Mrs. White". "Clue", www.imdb.com. 1985.
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“If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.”
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“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 KahnSource : "Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way". Book by Boze Hadleigh, 2007.
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“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 KahnSource : Madeline Kahn, on The Road Back to Broadway; At the National Theatre, Remaking Billie Dawn for A New 'Born Yesterday'" by Joe Brown, The Washington Post, October 26, 1988.
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“It`s acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they`re considered aggressive and opinionated.”
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“Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.”
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“In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played,”
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“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 KahnSource : "At Home With: Madeline Kahn; Funny? Yes, but Someone's Got to Be" by Michael Specter in The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. April 8, 1993.
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“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 KahnSource : Interview with Charlie Rose, December 16, 1996.
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