Karen Allen Quotes

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

Karen Allen

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

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• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

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• Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

  

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• When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

  

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• I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

  

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  

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• Conscience is God present in man.

  

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• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

  

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• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

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• Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

  

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• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

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• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

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• I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  

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• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

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• I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

  

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• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  

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• No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  

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• I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

  

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• Keanu Reeves learned a lot, respecting the culture. I was surprised when I first met him. He knew a lot already and he learned a lot. And also he learned Japanese. It's incredible. On the set, switching between the Japanese and English, even for us, is very hard. It's complicated. But the first time Keanu spoke in Japanese it was a very important scene between us, and more than the dialogue's meaning, I was moved. His energy for the film, completely perfect Japanese pronunciation. It was moving, surprising, respecting.

  

  Hiroyuki Sanada
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• A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Film
  • Lose
  • Los Angeles