Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Stacy Keach

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Stacy Keach.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Stacy Keach

Walter Stacy Keach Jr. is an American actor and narrator. He has played mainly dramatic roles throughout his career, often in law enforcement or as a private detective. His most prominent role was as Mickey Spillane's fictional detective Mike Hammer, which he played in numerous stand-alone television films and at least three television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The role earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1984.

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.
Actors make choices for different reasons.
My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career. — © Stacy Keach
My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.
Where were they when the Russians went down?
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.
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.
I look for characters who are emotionally driven.
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.
I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.
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.
This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.
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.
People want to typecast you; it's human nature.
I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.
I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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