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Madeline Kahn Quotes

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

Madeline Kahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 29, 1942 - December 3, 1999

Topics

Joy Laughter Kind Strange Mean

The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.

John Lasseter

Heart Soul Doors Kind Never Company

I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

Ana Gasteyer

Dress Hair Early Goal High Heels

White women love me 'cause of my edge. And I love white women.

Tracy Morgan

Love Women Me Love Me White Edge

When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened.

Robert Webb

Friend Right Size Head Up Tower

Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

Miguel Syjuco

History Experience Powerful First

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

Johnny Miller

Trying Look Air Critical

I've had a carry permit for 30 years, and I would say off and on in different instances where I have, you know, felt it was appropriate, I would carry the weapon on myself.

Chris Collins

Myself You Know Say Years Carry

I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.

Christian Slater

Myself Lost Just Because My Own Own

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.

Christina Ricci

Work Live Character Great Best

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

Branford Marsalis

Focus Intellectual More Hard Take

It's fun playing a more feminine part. I can identify more with a woman of passion and emotion than with a cartoon character. Who knows what a cartoon feels?

Brigitte Nielsen

Passion Character Woman Fun I Can

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

Anthony Holden

People Opinion World Lose Office