Zitat des Tages von Carol Kane:
My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.
I only eat things that you don't have to kill.
I make my relationships at work.
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.
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.
It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.
The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.
I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.
I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.
I am a very simple cook, I just do the minimum amount. I'm mostly a vegetarian, so I just steam a lot of vegetables.
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.
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.
I don't put together cars, I put together people.
I don't think, 'Oh, you know, I'm crazy and zany.'
I like the full spectrum of roles.
'Taxi' made a big difference because it got me into comedy.
My first movie was with Mike Nichols.
People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.
When I had my dogs, I used to spend a lot of time in Central Park, which is a great place to be alone among a lot of people.
My face is my career.
When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast.
It's very hard to remain a student in life.
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!
This profession has no rhythm to it - you're either busy enough to fall down, or nothing's happening!
'Hester Street' was an incredible opportunity for me. That script was such an incredible script.
For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.
Acting is pretty much my whole life.
New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there's something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to go to L.A. for work, when I'd come back and get off the plane and be driving towards the landscape of the city, I'd be beside myself with joy. It doesn't matter how many times!
It's totally mystifying to me how anyone could have canceled 'Taxi.' I don't understand it because that stuff is rare.
You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.
Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.
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.
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.
If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.
Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.