Madeline Kahn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Mother #Bohemian #Searchers
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 #Moments
Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!
-- Madeline Kahn

#Sex #Life After Death #After Death
If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.
-- Madeline Kahn

#Actors #Void #Scene
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

#Men #Creating #Today
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

#Thinking #People #Littles
It`s acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they`re considered aggressive and opinionated.
-- Madeline Kahn

#Men #Trying #Fool
Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.
-- Madeline Kahn

#Waiting #Bait #Masters
In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played,
-- Madeline Kahn

#Character #Hollywood
I can't even really tell a joke. 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

#Hard Work #Guilty #Easy
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

#Self #Sound #Tunes

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