Karen Allen quotes

Karen Allen is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in the Indiana Jones film series. She has appeared in numerous notable films, including "Starman" and "Scrooged." She continues to be recognized for her talent and enduring presence in film and theater. Here are 22 of her quotes:

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

Karen Allen

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

Karen Allen

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

Karen Allen

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

Karen Allen

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

Karen Allen

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

Karen Allen

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

Karen Allen

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.

Karen Allen

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

Karen Allen

As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

Karen Allen

I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

Karen Allen

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

Karen Allen

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

Karen Allen

My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.

Karen Allen

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

Karen Allen

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

Karen Allen

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

Karen Allen

The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.

Karen Allen

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

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