Diane Keaton Quotes

Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon. ~ Diane Keaton

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something. ~ Diane Keaton

Before I opened my computer in the parking lot today, I relived one of my favorite memories. It's the one with Woody and me sitting on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum after it's closed. We're watching people parade out of the museum in summer shorts and sandals. The trees to the south are planted in parallel lines. The water in the fountain shoots up with a mist that almost reaches the steps we sit on. We look at silver-haired ladies in red-and-white-print dresses. We separate the mice from the men, the tourists from the New Yorkers, the Upper East Siders from the West Siders. The hot-pretzel vendor sells us a wad of dough in knots with clumps of salt stuck on top. We make our usual remarks about the crazies and wonder what it would be like to live in a penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking the Met. We laugh and say the same things we always say. We hold hands and keep sitting, just sitting, as the sun beings to set. It's a perfect afternoon. ~ Diane Keaton

Thanksgiving isn't the only thing that has changed. This makes it reassuring somehow to go through the same ritual with the people you're connected to. I guess the truth is, it all boils down to family. Right? ~ Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton, I've worked with her as a director, and I think she's a really intelligent woman. I like the fact that the things that make her feel beautiful are more than just her face; it's who she is, and I live by that same theory. There are things I want to achieve in my life intellectually that make me feel beautiful. ~ Andie MacDowell

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth. ~ Diane Keaton

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder are mirrors a waste of time? ~ Diane Keaton

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives. ~ Diane Keaton

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.' ~ Diane Keaton

Stephen Shadley is a great collaborator. Over the years I've seen him work with a wide variety of clients and stylistic approaches. He listens to people in a way that makes them feel like they're part of the process. Steve is an inspiration on all fronts, and, believe me, that's a rare quality. ~ Diane Keaton

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me. ~ Diane Keaton

I have assessed my happiness ratio and this is the result. I am totally content whenever the ones I love are happy about something little, big, insignificant, whatever. I just don't think anyone could possibly have the same wonderful, intense, compelling feelings that I have for this family of mine. ~ Diane Keaton

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more. ~ Diane Keaton

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled. ~ Diane Keaton

[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in a culture in which this decision is undermined by the notion that the single most valuable contribution a woman can make is to be visually attractive. Women photographers make a strong case for seeing and an even stronger case for recording what you see. ~ Diane Keaton

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself. ~ Diane Keaton

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it. ~ Diane Keaton

You can see. Seeing is believing. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen. ~ Diane Keaton

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills. ~ Diane Keaton

Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that. ~ Zooey Deschanel

The best relationships develop out of friendships. ~ Diane Keaton

I WISH I FIGURED OUT A WAY TO LOVE YOU WITH ALITTLE LESS EFFORT. ~ Diane Keaton

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking. ~ Diane Keaton

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from. ~ Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton was a big role model for me. ~ Andie MacDowell

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary ~ Diane Keaton

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there. ~ Diane Keaton

I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow. ~ Emily Perkins

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding. ~ Diane Keaton

Nothing is ever the same. Nothing is permanent. Nothing can be trusted to be there. Nothing is safe, including home. Why lie to yourself? Every day we leave something, someone, some observation behind. ~ Diane Keaton

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. ~ Diane Keaton

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night. ~ Diane Keaton

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away. ~ Diane Keaton

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true. ~ Keanu Reeves

I don't know what I expected – no
maybe I do, Al Pacino from Scarface-
but this drug dealer is more like Al Pacino
at the beginning of The Godfather
reasonably bemused, untouched by his
criminal world, sitting with Diane Keaton
whispering about Luca Brazzi, not yet asleep
with the fishes, or like Al Pacino
from Glengarry Glen Ross, although actually,
now that I think about it, he's not
like Al Pacino at all but more like
Kevin Spacey from that film, and who's
ever been afraid of Kevin Spacey? ~ Jess Walter

Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we're lucky. ~ Diane Keaton

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who's had Botox and who hasn't. ~ Amanda Peet

Compliments linger. ~ Diane Keaton

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always. ~ Diane Keaton

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick. ~ Diane Keaton

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her. ~ Fred Melamed

Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear. ~ Diane Keaton

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience. ~ Diane Keaton

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man. ~ Diane Keaton

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along. ~ Diane Keaton

I carry their beauty inside the very soul of my being. Dark with shades of grey. White with storm clouds in the distance. Because of dad and mom, I am not afraid to dream of dark victories and black beauty. I'm not afraid to be in love with the night ~ Diane Keaton

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full. ~ Diane Keaton

Looking back, I wonder why a gangster movie kidnapped my life. The Godfather had nothing to do with me. I was a feminist, not Italian, and I went to school at Montana State. I had never set foot in New York, thought ravioli came only in a can, and wasn't blind to the fact that all the women in the film were either virgins, mothers, whores, or Diane Keaton. ~ Sarah Vowell

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well. ~ Diane Keaton

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity, that's what I think, while change on the other hand, is the cornerstone of new ideas. God knows I want new ideas and new experiences ~ Diane Keaton

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful. ~ Diane Keaton

I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep. ~ Diane Keaton

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips. ~ Diane Keaton

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone. ~ Diane Keaton

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams. ~ Diane Keaton

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it. ~ Diane Keaton

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life. ~ Diane Keaton

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis. ~ Diane Keaton

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring. ~ Diane Keaton

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. ~ Diane Abbott

I had just started my new paragraph when the classroom door opened and a woman and a fat blond girl walked in. Sharon sits behind me and I heard her say, "Ugh." Diane sits beside me and she whispered, "I hope she isn't going to be in this room. ~ Barthe DeClements

You can't get work without working. ~ Diane Lane

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most. ~ Diane Sawyer

Your best friendships are with people who share your world view. ~ June Diane Raphael

Diane suddenly felt like the words she was saying were twisting in her mouth and coming out as different words altogether. ~ Joseph Fink

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight. ~ Diane Ackerman

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth. ~ Diane Lane

I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris. ~ Diane Kruger

Can you believe it? They made me an ensign."
"I didn't realize that things were going so bad."
"Scary, isn't it? ~ Diane Carey

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is. ~ Diane Setterfield

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections. ~ Diane Ackerman

You don't get bored with stuff like 'Birdman.' ~ Michael Keaton

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention ~ Diane Ackerman

right. It's hopeless, ~ Diane Chamberlain

When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself - it's a hobby today, but at age fourteen it was a vocation. On a September morning, just after school started, I'd gotten Diane's .44 Magnum and held it, babylike, in my lap for hours. What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart. But I thought about Diane, and her coming home to my small torso and a red wall, and I couldn't do it. It's probably why I was so hateful to her, she kept me from what I wanted the most. ~ Gillian Flynn

I really have fun making up. I have a good face for making up, good bones. I do the shapings, then the eyes. Then I put on mascara and I do something else. Then I put on mascara again and do something else. Then I put on more mascara and my whole face is completely made up. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Richards and Maureen Sherbondy, also contributed their ideas at various points in the story, as did my sister, Joann Scanlon, and my assistant, ~ Diane Chamberlain

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country. ~ Diane Abbott

The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Well, if he calls that trifling,' said Babbington, nodding at the slung arm and the heavily bandaged leg and the waxen face, 'God help us if ever he tells us we are seriously hurt.'
'Amen,' said Jack. 'William, have you considered the Diane?'
'Yes, sir, and a very pretty ship she is - a fine narrow entry and the most elegant lines, though she is so low in the water she don't appear to advantage.'
'Why, she has twelve or even eighteen months stores aboard: she was going foreign, far foreign. But what I meant was, all those young women walking about her deck. Have you considered them?'
'Oh yes, sir,' said Babbington, a lubricious creature who had been considering them through a telescope at close range ever since they began to appear. 'There is a particularly handsome one in green just abaft the hances. ~ Patrick O'Brian

I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing. ~ Buster Keaton

Hopefully, every character that I take on, as I grow older, becomes more interesting. Obviously, as I grow older, I have more to bring to the table and more experiences that I've lived myself, so I'm hoping that I can color my characters, more and more. ~ Diane Kruger

A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget. ~ Audrey Tautou

Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense. ~ Diane Ackerman

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people. ~ Diane Ladd

My concern always has been with how - not why - people make transitions out of relationships. Many times the people I talked to did not understand why themselves. Even when they thought they knew, the reasons changed, so that what seemed to explain it at one time often did not seem important six months later. ~ Diane Vaughan

I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer.' I went: 'You ought to stick around and direct this thing.' But he didn't; he left, and look what he became. A really legendary comedy director. ~ Michael Keaton

And to the Pig he said, "What's the meaning of life?"

"You know, a friend of yours was asking me the same thing the other day," said the Transcendent Pig, ambling over, sitting down, and looking Ponch over in an amiable way. "Is asking," it added. ~ Diane Duane

When it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in. ~ Diane Chamberlain

Two flights of steps bordered either side of the Hill from Hell. I didn't know who constructed them or when, but it was sometime before I was born. Maybe even before Daddy was born. In one stretch, the steps were made of large semiflat stones. In another, wood. In a third, slate. All of them were in terrible disrepair, but it was still easier to climb them than to try to walk up the dirt road itself, especially since Stacy and I were weighed down with our backpacks, slices of pie in Tupperware containers, bottles of Pepsi, and a bunch of cassette tapes. We stopped halfway up to catch our breath. I really didn't need to, but I could tell Stacy was not used to trudging up hills. ~ Diane Chamberlain

[They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks. ~ Diane Setterfield

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg