Diane Keaton Quotes

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

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.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.

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

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

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

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

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 drink red wine on ice to water it down.

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

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

There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.

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

Somehow weddings bring out the most insane moments in people's lives.

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.

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

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.

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

I've never really looked back.

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

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.

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

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

[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.

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.

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

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