Julie Kavner

Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress known for her improvisational skills. The voice of Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, Kavner has also appeared in live-action roles in six Woody Allen films. In 1992, she starred in This Is My Life.

...when people laughed at me when I didn't mean to be funny. I would always hear: 'We're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you.' But I would say, ' I'm not laughing.'

I’m very, very private; I don’t enjoy talking about myself to strangers...Particularly strangers with tapes going.

Quotes

• I’m very, very private; I don’t enjoy talking about myself to strangers...Particularly strangers with tapes going.
  • Julie Kavner: a Private Person in Many Roles Los Angeles Times (June 15, 1989)

• I feel that you reach a certain age and then things start to jell. My sense of self is stronger. I'm getting bolder in my old age. After I hit forty, you couldn't mess around with me so much anymore.
  • Julie Kavner: a Private Person in Many Roles Los Angeles Times (June 15, 1989)

"'Darling! Listen to Me'"

The New York Times (January 26, 1992)

• I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you.
• [W]hat I do is not mimicry or an impersonation, but more of an assimilation
• As an actor you can't approach the character with that kind of awareness or it plays as 'I hate myself.' Dottie thought she had a right to her life and that was tricky to play.
• [W]hen I was a kid and I would get upset when people laughed at me when I didn't mean to be funny. I would always hear: 'We're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you.' But I would say, 'I'm not laughing.'
• Don't ask me about Beverly Hills High School. Everybody hated it. I hated it. Hated it. Hated it. Hated it.