Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel is an American actor and producer. An Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominee, he has appeared in films such as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma & Louise, Peter Yates' Mother, Jugs & Speed, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Jane Campion's The Piano, Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn, James Mangold's Cop Land, Paolo Sorrentino's Youth. Along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn, he...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 May 1939
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.
He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation