Carol Kane

“I have fun at work.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.”

“I think therapy can be very revealing and useful for actors. You start to dig deep and understand certain mechanisms that you hadn't been aware of before and, you know, meanings behind things.”

“All of our ancestors came from somewhere.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.”

“In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.”

“There's nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That's what it means to be in this profession.”

“I don't like somebody saying to me in their performance, 'Look at this. Isn't this funny?' I pray that I don't do that. I'm sure I fall off the horse every once in a while, but I try not to.”

“As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I've crossed and realize that it was a mine field.”

“I like the full spectrum of roles.”

“I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.”

“I was taught by a lot of great comedy writers to go for the reality in a role, and the comedy will come through.”