Charles Keating, Jr. quotes

“Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.”
-- Charles Keating, Jr.

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“I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.”
-- Charles Keating, Jr.

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“I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.”
-- Charles Keating, Jr.

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“In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.”
-- Charles Keating, Jr.

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“In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.”
-- Charles Keating, Jr.

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

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“Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.”
-- Charles Keating, Jr.

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“You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.”
-- Charles Keating, Jr.

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“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

“Poets are born, not paid.”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”

“I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.”

“Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.”

“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”

Source : "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". techland.time.com. April 02, 2013.