Madeline Kahn Quotes

#1. All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.

Casey Wilson

#2. I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.

Jenny Slate

#3. I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' with my little brother. We were obsessed with 'I Love Lucy.' And I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.' I love old comedic actresses - Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball.

Kether Donohue

#4. I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

Rachael Harris

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

Madeline Kahn

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

Madeline Kahn

#7. You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

Betty White

#8. Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

Madeline Kahn

#9. Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

Madeline Kahn

#10. After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

Salvatore Quasimodo

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

Madeline Kahn

#12. Through fire, through ice, through deepest despair, never lose your stride.

Hayden Pearton

#13. Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

Karen Maezen Miller

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Tell me, schatze, is it twue what they say about the way you people are... gifted?
...Oh, it's twue! It's twue!

Madeline Kahn

#18. 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

#19. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#23. I am a bookworm.

Holly Madison

#24. - December 13, 2011, Piscataway, New Jersey, on the road with the Lady Vols, seven months after diagnosis

Pat Summitt

#25. Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

Madeline Kahn

#26. 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

#27. Well then y'all fourteen karat gold crazy! I ain't payin' that for two damn tomatoes! Take it off then!

Tiana Laveen

#28. 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

#29. I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Alan Bennett

#30. Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

Rachel Miner