While filming 'Annie Hall,' I never really hung out with Woody Allen.
Carol Kane
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!
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.
All of my films have changed my life. I've met so many people and broadened my world view.
It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.
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.
'Hester Street' was my most complete character study, but 'Annie Hall' and 'The Last Detail' were also great.
You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.
'Hester Street' was an incredible opportunity for me. That script was such an incredible script.
It's totally mystifying to me how anyone could have canceled 'Taxi.' I don't understand it because that stuff is rare.
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.
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.
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!
I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.
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.
I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!
I think it's nourishing to do both comedy and drama.
I don't like to objectify the people I play. I always try to go for the truth in any part.
There's nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That's what it means to be in this profession.
I don't put together cars, I put together people.
Buses and subways are this remarkable social club. You talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to.
I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.
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.
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.
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.
The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.
'Taxi' made a big difference because it got me into comedy.
I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.
I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.
I have fun at work.
I didn't decide to be a character actress.
This profession has no rhythm to it - you're either busy enough to fall down, or nothing's happening!
If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.
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.
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.
For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.
I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.
You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.
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.
I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.
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.
Acting is pretty much my whole life.
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
It's very hard to remain a student in life.
People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.
Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.
I make my relationships at work.
My face is my career.
I only eat things that you don't have to kill.
There is no restaurant anywhere in the world where I have been that I haven't been able to find something to eat.
