Madeline Kahn Quotes

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

  Madeline Kahn

  Actors, Void, Scene

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• Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

  Madeline Kahn

  Sex, Clue, Life After Death

  "Fictional character: Mrs. White". "Clue", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• 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

  Able, Comedy, Forget You

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

  Madeline Kahn

  Waiting, Bait, Masters

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• It`s acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they`re considered aggressive and opinionated.

  Madeline Kahn

  Men, Trying, Fool

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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 Kahn

  Self, Sound, Tunes

  Interview with Charlie Rose, December 16, 1996.

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• Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

  Madeline Kahn

  Fun, Carefree

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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 Kahn

  Thinking, People, Littles

  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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• 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

  Hard Work, Guilty, Easy

  "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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• 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

  Trying, Comedy, Moments

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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 Kahn

  Men, Creating, Today

  "Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way". Book by Boze Hadleigh, 2007.

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

  Madeline Kahn

  Character, Hollywood

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Madeline Kahn

  Mother, Bohemian, Searchers

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