Best 74 quotes of Diane Keaton on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

By the way, everybody approaches acting differently. Like, I'm kind of sloppy and I like it kind of loose. I like to kind of play around. Some people don't.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

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.

I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.

I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

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

I'm proud of "Shoot the Moon.

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 rarely get the "Annie Hall" references other than from people who are aficionados of movies, people who really care about movies. But in general, people don't even think about it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

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.

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.

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

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"].

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

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

Katherine Heigl, she was exactly the opposite of what I thought she'd be like. She smokes cigarettes, or she did then, and she's got a truck-driver's mouth, and she's really funny.

Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.