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Karen Allen Biography

Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American film and stage actress. After making her film debut in Animal House (1978), she became best known for her portrayal of Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), a role she later reprised for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). She also co-starred in Starman (1984) and Scrooged (1988). Her stage work has included performances on Broadway.

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

Across, Man, Men, Movie, People, Want

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. "

Actors, Element, Give, Giving, Real, Trying

I was quite eager to work, anytime somebody was offering me a job, if I liked the role. Because I was always very discriminating from the very beginning, in the sense that I had absolutely no problem saying no to jobs when they came along if somehow they didn't fit into my universe - whatever that was.

Came, Fit, Jobs, Offering, Roles, Work

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?

Creative, Fascinating, Interesting, Needs, Wonderful

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

Dynamic, Interesting, Life, Roles, Way, Wonderful

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.

Actresses, Big, Fantastic, Generations, See, Wonderful

I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.

Animal, Board, College, Girl, Saw

When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.

Break, Break Through, Films, Independent, People

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

Actor, Actors, New York, Wonderful, York

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

Kind, Reading, Scripts, Type

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, Conceal, Different, Roles

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 in all directions as much as you possibly can.

Body, Dancer, Performer, Range, Work

I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews. " I guess I didn't read them.

Guess, People, Read, Reviews

I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.

Charlie, Laughton, Man, Men, New York, Teacher

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.

Greatest, Magic, Shoes, Spiritual, Travel

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

Eight, Person, Seven, Smoking, Years

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.

Decided, Months, Projects, Son, Want

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, Directors, Possible, Sense, Trying, Work

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.

Career, Careers, Children, Long, Said

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.

Bird, Suburban, Turkeys, Wake Up, Walk

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