Madeline Kahn quotes:

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played,

Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

It`s acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they`re considered aggressive and opinionated.

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.