Madeline Kahn Quotes & Sayings

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

Tell me, schatze, is it twue what they say about the way you people are... gifted?
...Oh, it's twue! It's twue! — Madeline Kahn

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. — Madeline Kahn

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

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

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

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. — Madeline Kahn

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played. — Madeline Kahn

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

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. — Madeline Kahn

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits. — Madeline Kahn

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree. — Madeline Kahn

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. — Madeline Kahn

Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage! — Madeline Kahn

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. — Madeline Kahn