Top 100 Quotes About Keaton
#1. The last thing I remember from last night was blabbing to Penny about how much I love Michael Keaton as Batman before someone must have ushered me off to bed.
Karina Halle
#2. My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.
Breckin Meyer
#3. Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.
Tom Hiddleston
#4. Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.
Clint Eastwood
#5. The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.
John Cleese
#6. I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.
Neil Patrick Harris
#7. I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit of perfection, getting the gag right.
Paul Merton
#8. You never had me, Keaton, but I always had you.
Courtney Lane
#10. I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.
Anita Loos
#11. 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
#12. I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her.
Cristin Milioti
#13. I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
Jackie Chan
#14. I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.
Demetri Martin
#15. I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
Navid Negahban
#16. Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.
James Wolcott
#17. Yeah 220, 221 whatever it takes!"
Michael Keaton character in "Mr. Mom
Mark Buff
#18. I love Michael Keaton. I think he's awesome - he's such an awesome actor - like the 'Beetlejuice' films. I just love that Tim Burton stuff.
Matt Ryan
#19. As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.
Evangeline Lilly
#20. 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
#21. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
Pierre Niney
#22. I always loved Batman, the Michael Keaton 'Batman.' I loved those films, and Superman, but I was never a real comic book geek.
Matt Ryan
#23. I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.
Robert Wagner
#24. 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
#25. In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.
Woody Allen
#26. I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.
Woody Allen
#27. I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.
Fred Melamed
#28. I'd walk to the ends of the earth hand in hand with Chace Keaton and all he had to do to get me to do it was kiss me deep, smile at me, hold my hand and call me baby.
Kristen Ashley
#29. When in doubt, I can stare blankly. The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?
Jon Stewart
#30. I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.
Josh Gad
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.
Peter Jackson
#34. 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
#35. Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the '80s.
Quentin Tarantino
#36. 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
#37. I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn't do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They've done less since. It all changed.
Brian Cox
#38. Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.
John Cleese
#39. His other arm slid around me and suddenly I found myself, after midnight, in my apartment, dancing with Chace Keaton. It
Kristen Ashley
#40. When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
Dick Van Dyke
#41. Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.
Steve Erickson
#42. Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.
Eduardo Galeano
#43. Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman while Buster Keaton wasn't.
French Stewart
#44. I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies when I was very young. And as I got older, I became a Charlie Chaplin fan, and I love Buster Keaton.
Joshua Malina
#45. I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#46. 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
#47. Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.
Gloria Steinem
#48. I'd come here to fuck Ashleigh Keaton. There was no way in hell I was staying out.
Annabel Joseph
#50. But you could see deep inside Darth was struggling. Because deep inside he was Anakin. There's no Anakin in Trane Keaton! I shouted then I found myself on my back in the bed with Chace on top of me.
Kristen Ashley
#51. You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed.
Jacques Tati
#52. There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.
Siri Hustvedt
#53. 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
#55. 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
#56. It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems infinitely elastic, an unruly instument to be wilded with a cheeky kind of grace.
Edward McPherson
#57. My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
Diane Keaton
#58. Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'
Michael Keaton
#59. It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.
Michael Keaton
#60. My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.
Michael Keaton
#63. 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
#64. I saw some Pixar movies like 'The Incredibles' and thought, 'This is extraordinary. These are some of the best movies I've seen.'
Michael Keaton
#65. 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.
Diane Keaton
#66. I've changed my diet a few times. Now I'm trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I'm busy, it's easy to lose weight.
Michael Keaton
#67. I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.
Diane Keaton
#68. High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.
Michael Keaton
#69. Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.
Diane Keaton
#70. I was an altar boy, which I loved and am very proud of. It was strict, but also really nice.
Michael Keaton
#71. Meeting another doctor with a degree different than your own, presents you with the opportunity to expand your knowledge.
J. Alec Keaton
#73. I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.
Michael Keaton
#74. I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.
Michael Keaton
#75. I do not really think Charlie knows much more about politics, history, or economics than I do. Like myself he was hit by a make-up towel almost before he was out of diapers.
Buster Keaton
#76. I think being a dragon would be pretty awesome ... you get to fly.
Josh Keaton
#77. Acting is reacting ... there's a magic when you're working with another actor. With voice acting, you're doing it alone, all in your head. So, you have to re-create that essence by yourself. It's not necessarily more difficult. It's just a different set of skills.
Josh Keaton
#78. I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things.
Michael Keaton
#79. If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistency. I do projects that are good and not so good.
Michael Keaton
#80. The best part is that I'm still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more.
Diane Keaton
#81. I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.
Michael Keaton
#82. Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.
Diane Keaton
#83. As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.
Diane Keaton
#84. I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.
Buster Keaton
#85. I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.
Michael Keaton
#87. In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.'
Michael Keaton
#88. I saw 'Wild,' and I thought, 'Wow, this is a lot of things, but one of the things is it's a therapist's dream and a climate-change denier's nightmare.'
Michael Keaton
#89. 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.
Diane Keaton
#90. The best relationships develop out of friendships.
Diane Keaton
#91. 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.
Diane Keaton
#92. This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.
Diane Keaton
#93. Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.
Buster Keaton
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
Buster Keaton
#97. 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.
Diane Keaton
#98. I like to take long naps. I like long walks on the beach. The perfect day is back home, California, going to the beach with a couple of friends, laying out in the sunshine, get a nice bronze.
Keaton Stromberg
#99. There are very few jobs where you're held up to public scrutiny.
Michael Keaton
#100. Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.
Josh Keaton
