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Vote: | As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it. |
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Vote: | Because - believe it or not - I don't do drugs! |
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Vote: | I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people. |
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Vote: | I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed. |
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Vote: | I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. I'm not spooky! I want life! |
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Vote: | I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player. |
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Vote: | If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. |
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Vote: | There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. |
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Vote: | There were all these rumors about me... so I went indoors. No one saw me for years. And since I wasn't around, people believed what they wanted. |
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Karen Black (born July 1, 1942) is an American actress, screenwriter, singer and songwriter.
She was born Karen Blanche Ziegler in Park Ridge, Illinois, the daughter of Norman Ziegler and Elsie Reif. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, for two years.
Black then went to New York. She studied drama with Lee Strasberg and appeared in a number of Off-Broadway productions. She was an understudy in the Broadway play Take Her, She's Mine (1961), and debuted in The Playroom (1965), which she received good reviews for.
Her film debut was in The Prime Time (1960). Her first big role was as Amy Partlett in You're a Big Boy Now (1966), which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Elizabeth Hartman and Geraldine Page. Black became a star with her role as Karen in Easy Rider (1969). She has over 100 film performances to her credit, including her role as Fran in Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976).
Black received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rayette Dipesto in Five Easy Pieces (1970).
She won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for Five Easy Piece's, and she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for her role as Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby (1974). She was nominated for Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama for her role as Faye Greener in The Day of the Locust (1975).
She was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Series for the film Nashville (1975).
She became involved with Scientology in about 1978, but has since denounced the controversial religion.
Black has had two husbands, screenwriter Kit Carson (divorced), and film editor Stephen Eckelberry (married 1987-present). She and Carson have one son, Hunter Carson (born December 25, 1975); and she and Eckelberry adopted one daughter at three months of age, Celine Eckelberry (born December 1987).
She also appeared on the TV series The Hundred Years (1967) as Marcia Garroway. And she has made a number of guest starring appearances on popular shows, including The Big Valley, Mannix, Adam-12, Saturday Night Live, Murder, She Wrote and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
In March 2005, Karen Black received the Best Actress Award at the Fantasporto International Film Festival in Porto, Portugal, for her work in the film Firecracker (2004), in which she plays two roles, Sandra and Eleanor. She and actor John Hurt were both presented with Career Achievement Awards as well.
External links *Official Karen Black Online
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