Diane Keaton Quotes

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.

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

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.

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

...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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

[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.

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.

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've never really looked back.