Madeline Kahn Quotes

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

• Work
• Truth
• Funny

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

Madeline Kahn

• Carefree

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

• Joy
• Laughter
• Strange

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

• Live
• Mind
• May

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
• Moment

Mel is sensual with me. He treats me like an uncle - a dirty uncle. He's an earthy man and very moral underneath. He has traditional values.

Madeline Kahn

• Moral
• Dirty
• Uncle

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

• People
• Life
• Funny

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

Madeline Kahn

• Good
• She
• Mother

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

• Up
• Time
• Future

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

Madeline Kahn

• Like
• Thought
• Hollywood