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Keith David
9 quotes
“My father is about to be 90. I feel like I’m in good company. There was a time in my life when the men in my family did not live that long. I had some fear of that in the back of my mind – but, you know, you wind up shortening your life, worrying about how long it’s going to be rather than how well you’re going to live.”
Keith David (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I didn’t necessarily want to do that. It took me a long time to learn how to work on people’s energy without absorbing it myself. I did it for a while, but I was real selective.”
Keith David (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My criteria is, I need to know why he made those choices so the audience understands the man. I want you to understand Black men as full-scope human beings. I try to go for that as much as possible”
Keith David (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We were circling back to the set-up point,and the chopper tilted at a slightly different angle than before. I just sort of noticed, imperceptibly, he was sliding toward the open door. He didn’t seem to notice it himself, but I’m watching him inch toward that door and I just grabbed him instinctually – or maybe selfishly, because the truth of the matter is I didn’t want to think about what I should have done for the rest of my life. How close did it actually come? I don’t know. We’ll never know. But, praise God, it didn’t happen, and we live to tell the tale.”
Keith David (born 1956) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keith David on his incredible career: ‘I want you to understand Black men as full-scope human beings’;By Andrew Lawrence on 26 Jul 2026
“I used to want to be a preacher myself. In fact, they had no way of knowing this before that, but she has given me the opportunity to really live my dream. I am fulfilling fantasy that I’ve had since I was seven years old. So, I do not take this opportunity lightly. I do not take it for granted. I’m filled with gratitude. I have a lot of fun playing this part. This is some of the most fun I’ve had in life, but I take it very seriously. I really am grateful, deeply grateful.”
Keith David (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That’s the beauty of playing this part, is I get to explore more than just a day in the life of. I get to explore his day to day reality, not only in his profession, but in his life. And we tend to compartmentalize the preacher or the politician, as if that’s all they are.”
Keith David (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Part of my discovery is as we speak, because that’s not different than in life. When you grow up with someone, you grow up in the same household with your brother, and you think you know most everything that they do. And then you find out years later that you had a reaction to something you think they did, and you find out that it did not go that way at all. If you knew that, you’d go back and change your reaction, but that’s not how life works.”
Keith David (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes, you make the adaptation. Maybe I wasn’t totally wrong, but instead of going the way that I thought it would have, it took a turn somewhere, because something else happened that I don’t know about.”
Keith David (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now, I have never experienced myself, outside of working, of actually being someone else. So, I don’t know whether I would’ve been a different person. I wanted to be an actor my whole life. So, I believe that wherever I went, I would’ve sought to be the actor I am, but I had great training. So whatever I am today is in some part due to the fact that, that’s where I went.”
Keith David (born 1956) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview: Keith David Talks ‘Greenleaf’, Creating a Backstory and Never Taking Things for Granted;By Lance Carter on October 12, 2018