Harvey Keitel Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

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• They have equal weight and you do the same work you’d do if you were playing a dramatic role.

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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.

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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.

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• That’s like asking a cobbler if he’s made too many pairs of shoes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• I thought Jack’s directing job was the best thing about the film.

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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.

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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

Harvey Keitel (25)

Birth:	13th May, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Harvey Keitel was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an American actor. His role in several films include: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Duellists, Falling in Love, Thelma & Louise, Mother, Jugs & Speed, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Piano, Bad Lieutenant, From Dusk till Dawn, Cop Land, Little Nicky, Dreaming of Julia, Youth, and Bugsy(Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture).

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