Charles Keating Quotations

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

Regarding the differences between playing in various mediums, television and theatre, one's job is to tell the story.

Robin Williams, by the way, is the most consummately skilled actor, and one of the funniest people I've ever encountered.

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I would love to think that because of the Emmy, the powers that be might be a little bit more inclined to use the character in a more fulsome way.

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.

I've done some directing, the most recent work was an off-Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet done for the Riverside Shakespeare Company.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.