Brian Keith Quotes

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If I live to be a hundred—and I hope I do—I won't have time to read all the books I want to read, or talk to the people I want to know. Not party talk. That's a waste of time. Real talk.

Brian Keith
I've made I don't know how many pictures. Forty, I guess. I've seen only about a half dozen of them. We made Reflections in a Golden Eye in Rome last spring. I really enjoyed working with Liz and Brando and that great director, John Huston. But the kind of picture I enjoy seeing is something like The Parent Trap. That was a charming thing with Hayley Mills playing my twin daughters. I saw that four times. I even took my wife's parents to see it. I like it so much I forgot I was in it, as a matter of fact.

Brian Keith
After having said publicly he never needed to work again because he made a lot of money from his previous work:
I get tired of sitting home and doin' nothing. If I'm doing something eight months of the year, I don't mind loafing the other four. But, lately, I've been finding fewer and fewer movies I'd like to do. And when that happens, I get hard to live with. Then this thing came along. I read it. I liked it. This character Hardcastle: I figured I could live with him for five years if I had to. There was something going on there. You don't get a helluva lot of character in series TV. They're more likely to star the car.

Brian Keith
The only attraction is the time. I work just 70 days a year on the show. I can still make two, three movies a year if I want to... If it were Bonanza, walking around the Ponderosa, tied up nearly all year, no-o-o chance. That's a fate worse than death.

Brian Keith
On his handsomeness:
What for? I don't go to the Daisy or any of that. We don't give parties under a striped awning out over the lawn for two hundred people, four of whom we like.

Brian Keith
In other words... you can't be a misogynist and expect women to appreciate you.

Brian Keith
Last Words:
Forgive me, but I don't want to live anymore. The pain is too bad. There is no point in trying to prolong this agony.
Six weeks after being diagnosed with cancer, Keith gasped these words to his wife before he shot himself.

Brian Keith