Harvey Keitel Quotes

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable to not do everything. That was my modus operandi for many years, but I just feel like I want to do challenging roles.

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.

I've been very lucky with my career and don't feel like I'm being typecast in the same role over and over again.

The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

I'm always trying to look for different roles.

Some jobs you do, they're just jobs. Others are life experiences.

I have always enjoyed my work and have chosen only what I thought was interesting by way of a role.

Being from a small town my parents wanted me to become an IAS officer but being an actor I lived the life of everyone. I've been a cop, a hardliner politician, a magician, a watchman, a don, a smuggler, an officer all in one life!

I play the role of my career in 'Dhanam.'

I have never been choosy throughout my career.

I've been saying yes to almost every interesting script that comes my way.

I'm not of the mind where, 'It doesn't matter what you care about; you've got to have a safe reliable job and do the 9 to 5.' I obviously don't subscribe to that. There's nothing wrong with that, though, if that's what you want to do.

I don't want to take anything that's coming in for the sake of work. I want to choose carefully, as I have done since leaving 'EastEnders.'

You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.

I have to very consciously choose the kind of work I want to do.