Harvey Keitel Quotes

I am not that cute. However, because I had played so many cute characters, I am starting to be influenced by them.

My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.

When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.

In acting, the basic tool is observation. Whenever you see something, you store it in your head, and when you come across a character that reminds you of that instance, you incorporate it.

I believe I am a character actor who likes to hide behind my characters.

As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.

Men have realized that when it comes to the workplace, both the sexes have equal stake because jobs are given based on talent and skill.

It's about hard work and not gender.

The happiest that I remember myself was putting on plays and pretending to be other people.

I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.

As an actress, you have to be very naive.

When you play a cop, it's a different feeling altogether.

Every time you play a different role with different actors in different locations, you're developing a greater level of comfort in the act of doing this, which is why you're getting better all the time.

I love telling the stories that we tell. I love playing the characters that we play.

It is my job to step into different characters.

I want to just be able to act and be like the girl next door or the cute babysitter or the busy mom who's fun or who knows, maybe something super dramatic, somebody who's really insecure and angry.

Whoever portrays me on screen need not necessarily be a look alike. Any hero could play my part.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

I was always goofing around. I suppose having a father who was an actor made you think that it was a real possibility as a career.

You kind of wonder when you play a role, will people go 'Oh, is that part of you?'

What I love about the UFC, it doesn't matter if you're a girl or guy. It doesn't matter what color skin, what religion you are, where you're from, they give you the same money and they give you the same star. It's up to you where you're gonna be.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

In my screen test for 'Hanna,' I sort of pretended I was this sporty person when I really wasn't.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.