Karen Black Quotes

I`ve been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I`m a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

I love playing strong women, even if they`re nuts.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I`m sorry, I don`t believe that`s America.

I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

If you can write it, I can be it.

I love what I do, so it`s not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I`d be dead in a week.

I have kept working, even if I`ve thrown off the big movies I used to do. I still have three or four wonderful little movies coming out.

There were all these rumors about me... so I went indoors. No one saw me for years. And since I wasn`t around, people believed what they wanted.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

If you didn`t know that I am an actress, I don`t think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She`s 16, so of course I bore her.

Every time you do a part you try to find out what it would really be like to be that person, no matter who she is.

My God, there aren`t any more movie stars, which is terrific with me, it`s very healthy. A lot of love now occurs in the business, people helping each other to do good work, getting high on each other`s success. Isn`t that great?

(on the craft of acting) That`s really what acting is: you imagine things, then you respond naturally to what you`ve imagined.