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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guys never really get over their toys.
MICHAEL KEATON

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
MICHAEL KEATON

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

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

In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't qui...
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 didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid.
MICHAEL KEATON

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

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that&#...
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 the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my ...
MICHAEL KEATON

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was so gullible as a kid.
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'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hollywood Breakthrough Director of the Year Award.
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

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

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

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

Hollywood Breakthrough Director of the Year
Award.
DIANE KEATON

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.
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'm so sorry I fell down.
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

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

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

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

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

I wanted to stay... me.
KELLY KEATON

Being back again with Steve and Marty was great and Steve is especially good in this one.
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'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passion...
JOSH KEATON

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrille...
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 not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.
DIANE KEATON

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth c...
MICHAEL GOUGH

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le...
MICHAEL SHANNON

You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.
MICHAEL MINA

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE

I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There&...
MICHAEL SYMON

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. ...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF

There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag...
MICHAEL PATERNITI

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se...
MICHAEL JACKSON

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straigh...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours wi...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and e...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and cha...
MICHAEL JACKSON

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ...
MICHAEL JACKSON

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
MICHAEL JACKSON

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everyt...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
MICHAEL PORTER

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
MICHAEL STRAHAN

I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.
MICHAEL CARBONARO

To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh...
MICHAEL BURGESS

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and...
MICHAEL JORDAN

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
MICHAEL KORDA

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and d...
MICHAEL JACKSON

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i...
MICHAEL KORDA

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to repl...
MICHAEL OWEN

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
MICHAEL OVITZ

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's...
MICHAEL BUBLE

Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND

The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
MICHAEL STUHLBARG

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ...
MICHAEL STRAHAN

It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl...
MICHAEL POLLAN

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca...
MICHAEL LEUNIG

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
MICHAEL NUTTER

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st...
MICHAEL HANEKE

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr...
MICHAEL ROOKER

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle...
MICHAEL LEUNIG

A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.
MICHAEL KORS

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE

If you copy then it is not self-expression.
MICHAEL SCHENKER

I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both w...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.
MICHAEL ASTON

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want peo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for tr...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
MICHAEL MORPURGO

The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
MICHAEL MORPURGO

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you wi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a schoo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to undere...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at a...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwritin...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of ...
MICHAEL KORS

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
MICHAEL POLLAN

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable...
MICHAEL SHEEN

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
MICHAEL PALIN

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL

A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fa...
MICHAEL SHEEN

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER

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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