List of Karen Allen Quotes

I've Had So Many People Just Come Up To Me And Say, 'when You Came Up On The Screen, Everybody In The Theater Applauded.' It's Just So Sweet, Really.

I'm Always Surprised When People Say, "oh, It Got Such Mixed Reviews." I Guess I Didn't Read Them.

I Have To Say From An Actor's Perspective, To Work With A Director Who Has Been An Actor Through Most Of Their Career Is A Pleasure. They Generally Have A Very Deep Understanding Of The Process Of What You're Doing, Of How You Are Building And Exploring The Character.

I Was Quite Eager To Work, Anytime Somebody Was Offering Me A Job, If I Liked The Role. Because I Was Always Very Discriminating From The Very Beginning, In The Sense That I Had Absolutely No Problem Saying No To Jobs When They Came Along If Somehow They Didn't Fit Into My Universe - Whatever That Was.

I Was Always Drawn Toward The Actor's Studio. I Studied At The Lee Strasberg Institute When I First Came To New York. One Of My Favorite Teachers Was One Of Al [pachino]'s Teachers, A Guy Named Charlie Laughton, Who Was Just A Wonderful, Wonderful Man.

Scripts Are Kind Of A Bare Bones Type Of Reading Material.

Unfortunately, I Feel As Actors We Have To Fight For The Right To Really Go In As Many Directions As Possible.

You Want To Move Into Worlds You've Never Been In Before. It Would Be Like Going To The Same Restaurant All The Time Or Going To The Same Place For Vacation All The Time. Where Is The Adventure In That?

As Actors, The Magic Is In The Almost Spiritual Experience To Really Enter Another World, To Really Enter A Belief Of Being In Another Person's Shoes And To Really Take On Their Experiences As Someone Else Has Written Them And Imagined Them. It's Kind Of A Sacred Thing. It's A Very Spiritual Experience. That In Itself For Me Is The Main Thing That Keeps Me Coming Back To It. I Like To Travel, But For Me, This Is The Greatest Travel.

I Try To Offer As Much As I Can To The Director So He Has As Much To Work With As Possible To Create The Character That, Really, He Wants To Create In A Sense.

When I Read A Film Script, I Kind Of See It In My Head And I See The Moments That Shape What I Understand The Character To Be. There's Very Little Time For Rehearsal.

In The Theater, Actors Are The Essential Element Of The Work. In A Film, It's A Real Collaboration - Not That Theater Isn't, Because It Is - But It's A Collaboration To Such An Extent That You Can Give A Performance In Film That Sometimes You Look At And You Go, "well, That's Not The Performance I Was Trying To Give At All."