Keitel: 'I almost quit acting'

Hollywood star Harvey Keitel almost quit acting after he was fired from the set of Apocalypse Now in the late 1970s.

Hollywood star Harvey Keitel almost quit acting after he was fired from the set of Apocalypse Now in the late 1970s.

Keitel, who enjoyed a renewed bout of fame in the early 1990s with roles in films like Reservoir Dogs and Bad Lieytenant, was famously sacked from director Francis Ford Coppola's epic war film before being replaced by Martin Sheen.

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