Quotes by Harvey Keitel - Page 1

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Imagination
Creation
Stories
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I thought Jack's directing job was the best thing about the film.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Directing
Jack
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That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Asking
Cobblers
Made
Pairs
Shoes
Too
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That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Life Is Like
Real
Stars
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They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Dramatic
Equal
Roles
Weight
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To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Beautiful
Character
Improvisation
Tools
Background
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I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Mean
Suits You
Trying
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I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Fun
People
Scripts
Time Good Fun
Script
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But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Environment
Pimp
Reason
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I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Hard Work
Struggle
Thinking
Work Hard
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You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Angel
Mother
Mother Earth
Reading
Singing
Mother Where Me
Angels
Brought
Led
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Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Lessons
Trying
Want
Wanting
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You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Dear
Father
Profundity
Protect
Wanting
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The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Great
Existence
Rewards
Struggle
Understanding
Life Great Way
Coming
Deal
Gained
Great Deal
Reward
See
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It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Actors
People
Stories
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My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Actors
Advice
Thinking
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Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Teacher
Adler
Book
Heard
Reading
Stella
Theatre
Recommend
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Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Mickey
Needs
Worthwhile
Unlike
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Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Beautiful
Betrayal
Eight
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I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Dream
Believe
The End Of The Day
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What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Fascinated
Helping
Literature
Mickey
Years
Comprehend
Mostly
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So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Careers
Remember
Remember You
Remembers You
Roles
Said
Thing
Why
Somebody
Career
Too
Early
Policeman
Taking
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She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Advise
Choices
Ideas
One Time
Talking
Choice
Followed
Hercules
Offered
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Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Being Done
Interviews
People
Profession
Way
People Way Help
Hardly
Interview
Reach
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All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Jobs
Beautiful
Doe
Exaggerating
Young Actor
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Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Appearance
Grateful
Rap
Andre
Effect
Unfortunately
Presence
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I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Men
Guidance
Guy
Powerful
Bright
Young Men
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Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Done
Effort
Financing
Stories
Old Story
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It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Bad Things
Conflict
Detectives
Fascinating
Man Me Father
Man Father Me
Lieutenant
Parochial
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I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Enjoyable
Guidance
People
Responsibility
Theatre
Reach
Speaking
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Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Ideas
Literature
Marine
Marine Corps
People
Pool
Ready
Corps
Nourished
Thoughts
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I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really sithere and delineate for you what the thought process is. I can perhapssay that literature, psychoanalysis and theater have been very valuableexperiences that have informed and nourished me along the way.
Harvey Keitel / Actor
Art
Reading
Thinking
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