"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."

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Source : "At Home With: Madeline Kahn; Funny? Yes, but Someone's Got to Be" by Michael Specter in The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. April 8, 1993.

Madeline Kahn

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“I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.”
“Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.”
“You can't wait for the perfect situation. Find something you love. People you love. And get out there and you'll discover it.”
“But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.”
“I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that's within himself, and through this light he will create a new community.”
“The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.”
“The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.”
“I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a holy walk. I despise a hypocrite or a covenant breaker. I judge them not; God shall judge them according to their works. I am a lover even of mine enemies, for an enemy seeketh to destroy openly. I can pray for those who despitefully use and persecute me, but for all I cannot hope.”

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