Stacy Keach Quotes

#1. I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Stacy Keach

#2. Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Robert Scoble

#3. It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.

Stacy Keach

#4. Furthermore, even these limited accomplishments should be obtained, Barbauld cautioned, "in a quiet and unobserved manner" for the display of knowledge by a woman is "punished with disgrace."6 Besides, the Monthly Review complained in a 1763 review, "intense thought spoils a lady's features."7

Karen Swallow Prior

#5. Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.

Stacy Keach

#6. I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

Stacy Keach

#7. Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

Stacy Keach

#8. Actors make choices for different reasons.

Stacy Keach

#9. I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

Stacy Keach

#10. He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size,
I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide.

Slimkid3

#11. And I love her. And she promised. She promised me always.

John Green

#12. I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

Stacy Keach

#13. Where were they when the Russians went down?

Stacy Keach

#14. I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a performer. Like Hugh [Grant] said earlier, we might all have this weird gene. Hopefully I will continue to have the talent to allow that gene to play itself out for as long as it can.

Mandy Moore

#15. I enjoy directing, but I really like acting more. The idea of controlling the whole thing is not something that really appeals to me as much as being able to just control the world of the character that I'm dealing with.

Stacy Keach

#16. You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.

Robert Galbraith

#17. The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true.

Stacy Keach

#18. The beauty of Rav Yohanan is not mentioned because Rav Yohanan did not have splendor of face (a beard).

Maggie Anton

#19. He who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.

Lao-Tzu

#20. The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. They put money into attack, by calling it defence.

Craig Stone

#22. To have the freedom to be able to make choices is something I guess every actor aspires to. Most actors don't have those kind of choices. If the part comes along, they take it.

Stacy Keach

#23. People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Stacy Keach

#24. It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#25. I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

Stacy Keach

#26. My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

Stacy Keach

#27. This layers, like some kind of transparent sponge kind of thing, stands there between Eri Asai and me, and the words that come out of my mouth have to pass through it, and when that happens, the sponge sucks almost all the nutrients right out of them.

Haruki Murakami

#28. There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success.

Stacy Keach

#29. I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.

Stacy Keach

#30. As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

Stacy Keach

#31. This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.

Stacy Keach

#32. I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

Stacy Keach

#33. For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside.

Jeremy Irvine

#34. My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

Stacy Keach