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Karen Allen Quotes

«Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.»
Author: Karen Allen (Actress) | Keywords: eventually, flaws, lovers
«I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.»
Author: Karen Allen (Actress) | Keywords: tangled, untangle, yarn
«Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.»
«I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.»
Author: Karen Allen (Actress) | About: First love | Keywords: commercial, First Love, my first
«I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York»
Author: Karen Allen (Actress) | Keywords: run through, theatre
«I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House»
«[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give.»
Author: Karen Allen (Actress)
«Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.»
«[They were] a small group of actors in their 20s, run by a man who had experience with Peter Brook and Grotowski, and I spent five years with them, producing, directing and acting.»
Author: Karen Allen (Actress) | Keywords: brook, producing
«[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, he seemed nervous about meeting everyone, about fitting in.»