Quote: 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]
Quote: As me and Abel coming together made me a third-owner of this movie. I guess they had no money to pay me, so they had to give me something! [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: He brought imagination to the story of the Creation. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: I read Get Shorty and Be Cool. He's a wonderful writer. He has his ear and his pen on the pulse of these kinds of characters he's writing about. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: I thought Jack's directing job was the best thing about the film. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: I was in a cave and I needed to draw some pictures on the wall about what my journey was, and that drive, that need, led me to acting. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: It had a profound effect on me. To read first the script and then Kazantzakis's novel, uhm, it sort of came at a time when I was questioning my own approach to knowing who I am, what I am, to knowing about my spiritual side. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: So I reached into my bag of tricks and looked for what was funny to me, what would enable me to have a good time and have a lot of fun with this guy. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Stella Adler said a wonderful thing: "The analysis of the text is the education of the actor." It's not difficult to find a way to play a character once you find out who that character is. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: That came about because Danny DeVito asked me to do him a favour and do the part and I did. Then 10 some-odd years later, I end up in the sequel so that was just a coincidence. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: That period was a very flowery one for me. It was the beginning of something, of a movement you might say. I was lucky enough to be there. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes. [Harvey Keitel]
Quote: The notion of belief, to believe for instance that Judas for a certain amount of money betrayed Jesus was always something I could not . . . it did not sit well with me. [Harvey Keitel]