Diane Keaton famous quotes

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.
-- Diane Keaton

#Fun #Having Fun #Just Have Fun

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

#Beautiful #Self #People

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary
-- Diane Keaton

#Memories #Ordinary #Moments

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

#Believe #Shoes #Style

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

#Half #Stuff #Too Much

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

#Thinking #Growth #Brain

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

#Thinking #Maids #Garbage

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

#Retirement #Mean #Sunset

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

#Ideas #Goal #Slow Down

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

#Sorry #Independent #Thinking

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

#Said #Psychiatrist #Psychoanalysis

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

#Age #Life Experience

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

#Thinking #Never Say Never #Plastic

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

#Wine #Night #Glasses

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

#Feelings #Actresses #Emotion

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

#Regret #Years #Fearless

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

#Stars #Writing #Men

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

#Attention

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

#Mother #Approach #Practicals

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

#Grows

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

#Wall #Traits

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

#Littles #Purses #Bigs

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

#Mother #Dream #Projects

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

#Mother #Talking #Talkers

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

#Mean #Years #People

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

#Fun

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

#Mother #Writing #Should

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

#Fun #Mirrors

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

#Done #Kind #Said

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

#Creativity #Perfection

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

#Thinking #Order #Risk

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

#Effort #Age

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

#Never Quit

The best relationships develop out of friendships.
-- Diane Keaton

#Friendship #Best Relationship

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

#Obstacles #Aging #Keep Going

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

#Past #Trying #Riddle

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

#Thank You #Grateful #Light

...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

#Doors #People #Want

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

#Kind #Disappear #Advantage

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

#Canyons #Grand Canyon #Standing

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

#Children #Believe #Parenting

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

#Jobs #Stars #Giving

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

#Fear #Fighting #Soul

I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep.
-- Diane Keaton

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

#Black And White #Color #White

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

#Real #Motherhood #Men

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

#Want #Intrigued

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.
-- Diane Keaton

#Wine #Ice #Water

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

#Thinking #Skills #People

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

#Lucky

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

#Song #Profound #Singing

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

#People #Wish #Littles

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

#Past #Keys #Documentation

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

#Acting #Actors #Company

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

#Humor #Grace #Way