Karen Allen

Karen Allen

Actress

Karen Allen is an acclaimed actress and director known for her roles in films like 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' exploring themes of love and authenticity.

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Born
October 27, 1956
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#2966

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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 in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel."

Spiritual Shoes Magic
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"I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense."

Character Trying Directors
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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 I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal."

Character Shapes Rehearsal
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"In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all.""

Real Giving Trying
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"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."

Son Parent Missing
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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 to continue to have a career, but not this way."

Children Careers Long
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"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."

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

Interesting Roles Way
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"People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man."

Men People Want
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"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."

Nice Too Much Sometimes
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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 a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?"

Real Thinking People
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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 world again. I'm just gonna see what happens."

Would Be World Film
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"I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other."

Character Different Roles
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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 time or going to the same place for vacation all the time. Where is the adventure in that?"

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

Stuff Film Los Angeles
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"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."

Generations Actresses Wonderful
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"Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible."

Fighting Actors Feels
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"Caregivers of those with a traumatic brain injury had their blood pressure recorded at certain time of day -- at meals and during other activities, .. The blood pressure of the people who had adopted the pets went down dramatically."

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

Independent Felt
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