Top 50 Keitel Quotes
#1. I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.
Emmanuelle Beart
#3. Oh I had crushes on all my leading men, I think. Oh, you know who I really had fun with? In this movie 'Mother, Jugs & Speed,' I really liked working with Harvey Keitel.
Raquel Welch
#4. Almost every single person that I've worked with - whether it's been [George] Clooney or [Robert] DeNiro or [Harvey] Keitel, or whoever - the quality that I find that's most consistent in most of the people is the humility.
Malik Yoba
#5. I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.
Harvey Keitel
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed ... He was a great psychologist.
Wilhelm Keitel
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.
Harvey Keitel
#14. To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
Harvey Keitel
#15. He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
Harvey Keitel
#16. I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
Wilhelm Keitel
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.
Wilhelm Keitel
#21. It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.
Wilhelm Keitel
#23. 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
#24. They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.
Harvey Keitel
#25. Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
Wilhelm Keitel
#26. I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.
Wilhelm Keitel
#27. 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
#28. If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
Wilhelm Keitel
#29. Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.
Wilhelm Keitel
#30. 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
#31. This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
Wilhelm Keitel
#32. 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
#33. The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
Wilhelm Keitel
#34. It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.
Wilhelm Keitel
#35. A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.
Wilhelm Keitel
#36. 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
#37. I thought Jack's directing job was the best thing about the film.
Harvey Keitel
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.
Harvey Keitel
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.
Wilhelm Keitel
#49. That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.
Harvey Keitel
#50. Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.
Wilhelm Keitel
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