Karen Black Quotes

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

  Karen Black

• Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

  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

• If you can write it, I can be it.

  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’ve been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

  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 love playing strong women, even if they’re nuts.

  Karen Black

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

  Karen Black

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

  Karen Black

• 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.

  Karen Black

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Birth:	1st July, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Black was born as Karen Blanche Ziegler in Park Ridge, Illinois, in suburban Chicago, the daughter of Elsie Mary, a writer of several prize-winning children's novels, and Norman Arthur Ziegler. Her paternal grandfather was Arthur Charles Ziegler, a classical musician and first violinist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her sister is the actress Gail Brown. Black was of German, Bohemian and Norwegian descent. She was a 1957 graduate of Maine Township High School East.

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