Karen Black Quotes

If you can write it, I can be it.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

I love playing strong women, even if theyre nuts.

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.

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

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

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.

I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

I have kept working, even if Ive thrown off the big movies I used to do. I still have three or four wonderful little movies coming out.

There were all these rumors about me... so I went indoors. No one saw me for years. And since I wasnt around, people believed what they wanted.

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.