Top 87 Quotes About Diane Keaton
#1. As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.
Evangeline Lilly
#2. 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
#3. 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
#5. I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"
Roseanne Barr
#6. Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.
Gloria Steinem
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.
Casey Wilson
#10. I love Diane Keaton's style in 'Annie Hall,' but I like to think my own style is like a cross between 'Annie Hall' and Prince.
Lianne La Havas
#11. I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.
Fred Melamed
#12. There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.
Blake Lively
#13. I ... understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!
Jennifer Aniston
#14. 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
#15. I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep.
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#16. 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.
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#17. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder are mirrors a waste of time?
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#18. Daniel Wolf's advice - want what you have.
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#19. Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.
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#20. I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.
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#21. I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.
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#22. I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.
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#23. I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.
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#24. My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.
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#25. 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
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#26. I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.
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#27. Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we're lucky.
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#28. Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.
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#29. 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.
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#30. A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
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#31. Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.
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#32. What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.
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#33. I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.
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#34. 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.
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#35. I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.
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#36. We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.
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#37. 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.
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#38. My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.
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#39. 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.
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#41. Acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.
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#42. We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.
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#43. 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.
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#44. I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.
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#45. 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
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#46. What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.
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#47. Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.
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#48. Its the journey that counts, not the arrival.
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#49. You can see. Seeing is believing. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen.
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#51. As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.
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#52. Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.
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#53. 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?
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#54. 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.
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#55. I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.
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#56. 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.
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#57. This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.
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#58. When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.
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#59. The best relationships develop out of friendships.
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#60. I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.
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#63. The best part is that I'm still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more.
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#64. Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.
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#65. I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.
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#66. Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.
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#67. 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.
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#69. My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
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#70. At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge.
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#71. My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.
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#72. 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.'
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#73. The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness
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#74. I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.
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#75. I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.
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#78. 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.
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#80. I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.
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#81. I do believe in saving shoes. But that does not make me a hoarder. I am not a hoarder. But why not save them? Styles come back.
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#82. Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
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#83. Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you'll get to do it forever. It's a very lucky and privileged position to be in.
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#84. I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
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#85. I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.
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#86. I WISH I FIGURED OUT A WAY TO LOVE YOU WITH ALITTLE LESS EFFORT.
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#87. Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary
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