In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.
Carol Kane
‘Taxi’ made a big difference because it got me into comedy.
Carol Kane
If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don’t regret, even about bad choices, is that there’s always something you can get out of it.
Carol Kane
I just love the black and white movies.
Carol Kane
My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don’t care where it is.
Carol Kane
If they give you good words to say, and you don’t get in the way of them, you’ll be OK.
Carol Kane
An actor really suffers when the director isn’t prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
Carol Kane
It’s hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.
Carol Kane
Acting is pretty much my whole life.
Carol Kane
I don’t feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
Carol Kane
It’s very hard to remain a student in life.
Carol Kane
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.
Carol Kane
People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.
Carol Kane
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.
Carol Kane
I don’t put together cars, I put together people.
Carol Kane
I know I’ll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.
Carol Kane
The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.
Carol Kane
I don’t like that I’m my own commodity, that I am what I sell.
Carol Kane
Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.
Carol Kane
I have fun at work.
Carol Kane
I make my relationships at work.
Carol Kane
My face is my career.
Carol Kane
I only eat things that you don’t have to kill.
Carol Kane
There is no restaurant anywhere in the world where I have been that I haven’t been able to find something to eat.
Carol Kane
Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.
Carol Kane
I didn’t decide to be a character actress.
Carol Kane
It’s totally mystifying to me how anyone could have canceled ‘Taxi.’ I don’t understand it because that stuff is rare.
Carol Kane
I was this extremely dramatic actress. And then, suddenly, I was doing comedy.
Carol Kane
When you’re doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it’s considered a big cast.
Carol Kane
I don’t like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I’m afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.
Carol Kane
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.
Carol Kane
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.
Carol Kane
My first movie was with Mike Nichols.
Carol Kane
All of our ancestors came from somewhere.
Carol Kane
If they give you good words to say, and you don’t get in the way of them, you’ll be OK.
Carol Kane
I know that I’m in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!
Carol Kane
I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.
Carol Kane
I’m one of those people that if I go to a party, I can’t remember my mother’s name because I’m so nervous in a social situation.
Carol Kane
I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.
Carol Kane
I like the full spectrum of roles.
Carol Kane
It’s like life: you have both comedy and drama. There’s a balance, and I’m lucky enough to have it in my work.
Carol Kane
I think it’s nourishing to do both comedy and drama.
Carol Kane
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.
Carol Kane
For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.
Carol Kane
I happen to think I look best in black.
Carol Kane
As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I’ve crossed and realize that it was a mine field.
Carol Kane
This profession has no rhythm to it – you’re either busy enough to fall down, or nothing’s happening!
Carol Kane
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.
Carol Kane
Hester Street’ was my most complete character study, but ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Last Detail’ were also great.
Carol Kane
All of my films have changed my life. I’ve met so many people and broadened my world view.
Carol Kane
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.
Carol Kane
If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don’t! I don’t have those capabilities.
Carol Kane