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Karen Allen

(1951) Film Actor United States

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Karen Allen is a film actor from the United States, best known for I Was Made.

Quick Facts About Karen Allen

Born: October 5, 1951
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Actor
Notable works: I Was Made
Spouse: Kale Browne

About Karen Allen

Karen Jane Allen is an American film, television and stage actress. She made her film debut in the comedy film Animal House (1978), which was soon followed by a small role in Woody Allen's romantic comedy-drama Manhattan (1979) and a co-lead role in Philip Kaufman's coming-of-age film The Wanderers (1979), before co-starring opposite Al Pacino in William Friedkin's crime thriller Cruising (1980).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Theatre World Award

Quotes by Karen Allen · Page 2

In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater…

Actors

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Life means giving as much of yourself as you have to give.

Generosity

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Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has…

Acting

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I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the…

Blood

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I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

Eight

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For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning…

Als

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As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being…

Actors

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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle…

Born

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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to…

Ability

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I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater…

Cinema

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You want to move into worlds you've never been in before. It would be like going to the same restaurant all the…

Adventure

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There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

Actors

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I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want…

Careers

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When I was in my 20s and 30s, there was such a variety and diversity of types of films that you could…

Cinema

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Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Candor

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Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

Bones

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When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what…

Character

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If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work…

Body

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I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for…

Aspect

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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this…

Able

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I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York.…

Actors

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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away…

Decided

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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where…

Bird

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