Madeline Kahn Quotes
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.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.
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I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility.
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I deal with haters on a daily basis.
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We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl!
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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.
