Diane Keaton Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.

There's also a certain segment that doesn't know what "Annie Hall" is. Seriously, it's true.

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

What I like about that is it kind of puts you in your place. Don't count on being remembered. Just live now, you know?

Topher Grace is a really smart guy, and he really thinks about [acting].

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

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).

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

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.

Robin Williams, another person I didn't know. He is genuinely hilarious.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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