Michael Keaton quote: "I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more."

In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't qui...
MICHAEL KEATON

I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid.
MICHAEL KEATON

I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.
MICHAEL KEATON

I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer...
MICHAEL KEATON

Guys never really get over their toys.
MICHAEL KEATON

I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.
MICHAEL KEATON

That takes a lot of guts, ... It's not hard for me to imagine having that kind of job.
MICHAEL KEATON

I was an altar boy, which I loved and am very proud of. It was strict, but also really nice.
MICHAEL KEATON

If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, ...
MICHAEL KEATON

There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.
MICHAEL KEATON

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has g...
MICHAEL KEATON

There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yea...
MICHAEL KEATON

If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistenc...
MICHAEL KEATON

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.
MICHAEL KEATON

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really ...
MICHAEL KEATON

I don't think there's anybody better than Leonardo DiCaprio, and I've been saying that s...
MICHAEL KEATON

Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't giv...
MICHAEL KEATON

Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It's lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.
MICHAEL KEATON

I'm gonna do four or five of these movies, and it's going to become my career. I'll have to keep exp...
MICHAEL KEATON

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and...
MICHAEL KEATON

I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh ...
MICHAEL KEATON

I don't want dogs that have had the personality trained out of them. It's a partnership. I w...
MICHAEL KEATON

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I l...
MICHAEL KEATON

It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more mo...
MICHAEL KEATON

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
MICHAEL KEATON

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other sid...
MICHAEL KEATON

I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, in a really rundown old house. I'd stay out till 8:30, 9:00 at ...
MICHAEL KEATON

I was so gullible as a kid.
MICHAEL KEATON

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the o...
MICHAEL KEATON

I watch 'Morning Joe' occasionally. I used to watch a lot more than I do now, but I watched ...
MICHAEL KEATON

When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy...
MICHAEL KEATON

Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore.
MICHAEL KEATON

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens ...
MICHAEL KEATON

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that&#...
MICHAEL KEATON

I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my ...
MICHAEL KEATON

All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain...
MICHAEL KEATON

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.
MICHAEL KEATON

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zo...
MICHAEL KEATON

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other sid...
MICHAEL KEATON

I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.
MICHAEL KEATON

Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their f...
MICHAEL KEATON

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I w...
MICHAEL KEATON

I'm just shocked and thankful that I've gotten away with everything - experimenting here, tr...
MICHAEL KEATON

To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.
MICHAEL KEATON

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicke...
MICHAEL KEATON

I'm gonna do four or five of these movies, and it's going to become my career. I'll have to keep exp...
MICHAEL KEATON

You're not a columnist. You're a reporter (who) writes long.
MICHAEL KEATON

I didn't do it to say I wanted to do something for my child. ... If I didn't think it was good, I wo...
MICHAEL KEATON

Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I s...
MICHAEL KEATON

People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people...
MICHAEL KEATON

From the time I was a kid, I was crazy about anything having to do with the West. I'd look at al...
MICHAEL KEATON

I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a speci...
JOSH KEATON

I've simply been brought up being knocked down.
BUSTER KEATON

Hollywood Breakthrough Director of the Year Award.
DIANE KEATON

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

I'm limited, so, I kind of know where I fit as an actress. I kind of get it now, finally, after all ...
DIANE KEATON

Hollywood Breakthrough Director of the Year Award.
DIANE KEATON

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn...
DIANE KEATON

There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments... brief, shining momen...
KELLY KEATON

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

They show you this, oh, here's a house here destroyed. Here's a house here destroyed. What you don't...
KEATON THOMAS

Somebody brought up the idea, what if we went to New Orleans and helped down there in reconstruction...
KEATON THOMAS

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was ...
DIANE KEATON

That's what I brought him in for. When the passing game is not going, it's always good to have other...
TEDDY KEATON

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

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when y...
DIANE KEATON

Len said, 'I'll give you a tour if you promise to join the L.A. Conservancy,'
DIANE KEATON

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.
DIANE KEATON

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
BUSTER KEATON

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.
BUSTER KEATON

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They...
DIANE KEATON

We just had to pick it up intensity-wise. We came out and just weren't mentally prepared. The intens...
KEATON FRYE

I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some mar...
JOSH KEATON

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

Sebastian's eyes were the color of smoke and silver. His pale skin, raven hair, and naturally dark r...
KELLY KEATON

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without scri...
BUSTER KEATON

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the...
DIANE KEATON

Everybody at Metro was in my gag department, including Irving Thalberg. They'd laugh their heads off...
BUSTER KEATON

That's got to be our goal, to win state again. They taught me a lot, especially about working hard a...
KEATON NANKIVIL

He had a deck that, if it was set up, could pretty much overpower mine. My deck was doing fast damag...
KEATON GILL

I think being a dragon would be pretty awesome... you get to fly.
JOSH KEATON

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myt...
DIANE KEATON

I'm so sorry I fell down.
BUSTER KEATON

It was an event when you could get all three of them on the set at the same time. The minute you sta...
BUSTER KEATON

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to ...
DIANE KEATON

Spiderman was my favorite comic book character growing up. I'm a geek, so I love the fact Peter ...
JOSH KEATON

I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passion...
JOSH KEATON

Individual honors are great but the game is about all 15 people on the team.
KEATON NANKIVIL

I think it took the wind out of them, because of the way they were going so hard on defense and they...
KEATON NANKIVIL

These houses were flooded up to about the second story, if they had a second story, so everything wa...
KEATON THOMAS

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experien...
DIANE KEATON

Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be ...
BUSTER KEATON

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
BUSTER KEATON

Think slow, act fast.
BUSTER KEATON

The camera can't catch my blushes!
BUSTER KEATON

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script o...
BUSTER KEATON

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience t...
DIANE KEATON

I just have to keep going back to the core and think that we're all afraid of it and when we're afra...
DIANE KEATON

Hollywood Breakthrough Director of the Year
Award.
DIANE KEATON

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.
DIANE KEATON

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting r...
DIANE KEATON

I wanted to stay... me.
KELLY KEATON

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrille...
DIANE KEATON

Being back again with Steve and Marty was great and Steve is especially good in this one.
DIANE KEATON

This is where I wanted to be. I was counting on getting this far with this team. I'd rather be here ...
KEATON NANKIVIL

We feed off the crowd but we knew everyone would be on spring break. In a bigger place like this, it...
KEATON NANKIVIL

Well, I knew that you could battle (with) the cards. But I didn't know that there were actual events...
KEATON GILL

True religion is not just in the creed you profess, but its also in the life you lead.
CARRIE J. KEATON

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.
DIANE KEATON (ORIG. DIANE HALL)

The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowdi...
MICHAEL FINKEL

Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportu...
MICHAEL SALTER

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged ...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE

Scared people did scary things sometimes,
MICHAEL GRANT

The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.
MICHAEL WICKETT

There is no school of philosophy that approaches ordinary common sense.
MICHAEL LIPSEY

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
MICHAEL KORDA

We worry about losing our memory, yet there are things we wish we could forget.
MICHAEL LIPSEY

Rulers were made to be broken.
MICHAEL ISENBERG

It is easy to forgive an insult, but harder to forget one.
MICHAEL LIPSEY

The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and F...
MICHAEL VANCE

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Never forget that you are married to a very beautiful woman.
MICHAEL LIPSEY

How can our relationship grow when you don't respect my need to discuss everything that is wrong wit...
MICHAEL LIPSEY

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
MICHAEL KORDA

The more you can dream, the more you can do.
MICHAEL KORDA

I never thought a role model should be negative.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life - birth, death, ...
MICHAEL SHERMER

Twenty children can never play together for twenty years
MICHAEL ADELOWO

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
MICHAEL LEBOEUF

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
MICHAEL LEBOEUF

Sometimes you have to do the work and hope the career materializes.
MICHAEL LIPSEY

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and i...
MICHAEL CAINE

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get cat...
MICHAEL STIPE

There isn't always sex, but there is always chocolate.
MICHAEL LIPSEY

There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. ...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.
MICHAEL BRUCE

Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.
MICHAEL BRUCE

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the ti...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
MICHAEL JORDAN

...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most...
MICHAEL CADNUM

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This da...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
MICHAEL PRITCHARD

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
MICHAEL PRITCHARD

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll bec...
MICHAEL JOSEPHSON

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will st...
MICHAEL PRITCHARD

Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a sing...
MICHAEL CRICHTON

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
MICHAEL FRIEDMAN

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside...
MICHAEL BRIDGE

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final ac...
MICHAEL KORDA

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a...
MICHAEL KORDA

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside...
MICHAEL BRIDGE

Revolutions never occur in mathematics.
MICHAEL CROWE

Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been, The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges...
MICHAEL DRAYTON

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an Ameri...
MICHAEL HANEKE

Chairman Chaffetz was an enthusiastic supporter of the 'USA Freedom Act,' designed to rein i...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain abo...
MICHAEL JOHNS

People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the...
MICHAEL HINTZE

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly commun...
MICHAEL BURGESS

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Dell's a company that has changed the IT landscape in making PCs and servers more affordable. Th...
MICHAEL DELL

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that d...
MICHAEL FRANTI

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the t...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted ...
MICHAEL HASTINGS

Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often ...
MICHAEL MOSS

When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to...
MICHAEL POLLAN

There are powdered salts, chunked salts, salts shaped in different ways with various additives to wo...
MICHAEL MOSS

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governme...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF

Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.
MICHAEL HAYDEN

For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the run...
MICHAEL AZERRAD

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
MICHAEL CAINE

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth ...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.
MICHAEL GOVE

No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on t...
MICHAEL GOVE

Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing...
MICHAEL GOVE

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
MICHAEL GOVE

We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of lif...
MICHAEL GOVE

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain...
MICHAEL GOVE

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming m...
MICHAEL GOVE

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we ...
MICHAEL GOVE

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the far...
MICHAEL POLLAN

I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so se...
MICHAEL LEUNIG

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whos...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral comp...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fun...
MICHAEL STEELE

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are ...
MICHAEL STEELE

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor an...
MICHAEL BUBLE

It doesn't matter what else is going on. When you walk into your arena or your - whatever you ex...
MICHAEL PHELPS

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to sw...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In ...
MICHAEL PHELPS

The more you dream the more you achieve.
MICHAEL PHELPS

I think everybody pees in the pool. It's kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.
MICHAEL PHELPS

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
MICHAEL JORDAN

A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the co...
MICHAEL POLLAN

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested i...
MICHAEL EISNER

I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more.

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I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more.

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