Karen Black Quotes

"If you can write it, I can be it."
-Karen Black

"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."
-Karen Black

"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."
-Karen Black

"I like to watch people. For example, people at the airport... What is interesting about them is that they don't know what they are like. People at airports are the most brilliant actors in the world, because their attention is elsewhere, and they are idiosyncratic. I like to imitate people. I walk behind them and imitate their backs."
-Karen Black

"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."
-Karen Black

"If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America."
-Karen Black

"I spoke to a woman who had seen her son run over by a car. She went to one of these damn therapists who do nothing but dole out drugs and haven't the faintest idea how to help somebody. And she goes home, puts them in her cabinet, and works through it herself."
-Karen Black

"I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed."
-Karen Black