Carradine Quotes

Some of the films I`ve been in I regret making. I got conned into making these pictures in almost every case by people who lied to me. Some years ago I got a call from my producers saying that they were sending me a script and that five very distinguished American actors were also going to be in the film. Actors like José Ferrer, Dean Jagger and John Carradine. So I thought, "Well, that`s alright by me". But it turned out it was a complete lie. Appropriately, the film was called End of the World (1977).

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I`ve watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

I played drums on Keith Carradine`s first record.

Ingmar Bergman said he cast David Carradine in The Serpent`s Egg (1977) "because he has the princely blood of his father in his veins."

(about Southern Comfort (1981)) It was the hardest movie I ever made as far as being physical. It was cold and freezing in that swamp. (Keith Carradine) and the other ones, they wore wet suits under the clothes, I never wore one. I was miserable, but it worked for the movie. I played a local Cajun trapper. It`s the only accent I ever had to learn. I`m a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. That one I had to study, and a real Cajun taught me how to do it. So, I did this Cajun patois, bastardized French. It was very different, it was like a southern black French.

One scene with David Carradine required seven old men as extras, ... So, I rounded up these guys, and they ended up having a great time on the set. The scene was delayed, so they got to hang out with Carradine for a few hours, and he had lunch with them.