Diane Keaton Quotes

We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

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

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

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.

Robert De Niro is just evolved as a human being. He's a very kind guy. Age has been good for him, in terms of just, he's very kind.

What's interesting about Topher [Grace] to me was, he's playing a 29-year-old virgin, which was really kind of hard for me to believe in real life, you get my drift? I mean, that was really not possible. And somehow he pulled it off.

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.

I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.

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.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

I've never really looked back.

I'm proud of "Shoot the Moon."

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

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.

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.

I was cast in this commercial called "Hour After Hour." It was for a deodorant that won't wear off. And [Susan Sarandon] became the Hour After Hour girl after me. But I never met her. So I didn't really know Susan till after this movie [ "The Big Wedding"].

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.

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.

Robert De Niro, even though I've been in two other movies with him, I never really got to know him at all. But on this movie ["The Big Wedding"] I did.

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

acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

Working with Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give") and ... Charles Shyer ("Father of the Bride"), and I'm proud of "Reds," and I'm proud of my movies with Woody (Allen).

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

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?

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.

Amanda (Seyfried) has this dog that goes everywhere with her.

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.

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

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

The thing is, though, that some of these people are my age, right? And I didn't know them. I didn't know Susan Sarandon. I mean, I'd seen her.

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

My daughter fell in love with Ben Barnes, of course. She's 17. What are you gonna do? That was a tragic loss. He didn't fall in love with her.

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

[Topher Grace] is thought about what he's going to do and he has a lot of ideas. So there's that.

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

Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

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.

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.