Best 12 quotes of Madeline Kahn on MyQuotes

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

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.

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

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.

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.

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

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

Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

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.

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

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.