Carol Kane Quotes
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Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.
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It's very hard to remain a student in life.
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That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
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I've been lucky in my career. I've worked with some of the greatest filmmakers and actors around. I'm so proud of some of my work.
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This is a grueling profession. Either you can't get work, or you can't get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it's not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.
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Life is very cyclical. And my career has been very-high-very-low, very-high-very-low, and I think it'll probably keep on rolling that way.
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I don't put together cars, I put together people.
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I have fun at work.
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The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.
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I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!
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I just love the black and white movies.
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I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character - not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.
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The thing about the four-camera shows is that it's kind of a great combo of theater and film. You have an audience, but you have a camera to capture things, so that's a great thing, too.
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In my experience, each project is what it is, and nothing is necessarily a turning point.
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A goal of mine is to try and be as real as possible. To try and not comment on the work I'm doing but just do it.
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I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first, and then I moved into film, also very young, and when I did 'Taxi,' for instance, it was live in front of an audience but also filmed; that was a fun combination.
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I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.
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I like the full spectrum of roles.
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Buses and subways are this remarkable social club. You talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to.
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My face is my career.
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I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.
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There are directors who don't cast you for the way you act but for the way you are, the way you behave around the dinner table.
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I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.
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And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.