Diane Keaton Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary — 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

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

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

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

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. — Diane Keaton

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness — Diane Keaton

I'm a lot of fun on a date. — Diane Keaton

The best relationships develop out of friendships. — 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 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. — 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 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 don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage. — Diane Keaton

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. — Diane Keaton

I drink red wine on ice to water it down. — 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

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying. — Diane Keaton

Daniel Wolf's advice - want what you have. — 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

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

Acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors. — Diane Keaton

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

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

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding. — 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 hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep. — Diane Keaton

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

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. — Diane Keaton

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

The best part is that I'm still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more. — Diane Keaton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Its the journey that counts, not the arrival. — Diane Keaton

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

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

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

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

Compliments linger. — 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 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

We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both. — Diane Keaton

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

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

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

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. — Diane Keaton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me. — 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

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

[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

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. — 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

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. — Diane Keaton

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. — Diane Keaton

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. — Diane Keaton

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

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

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. — Diane Keaton

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