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Michael Keaton Quotes

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

– Michael Keaton

I saw ‘Wild,’ and I thought, ‘Wow, this is a lot of things, but one of the things is it’s a therapist’s dream and a climate-change denier’s nightmare.’

– Michael Keaton

People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there’s all kinds of people in Hollywood.

– Michael Keaton

Unless you’re flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what’s on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

– Michael Keaton

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

– Michael Keaton

I think one reason I really like women and like working with women is because of my sisters.

– Michael Keaton

I can’t sleep the first night in a hotel room.

– Michael Keaton

I’ve got six wonderful brothers and sisters.

– Michael Keaton

I’m the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don’t ever remember a time when my father didn’t work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.

– Michael Keaton

Chris Guest movies are funny.

– Michael Keaton

Chris Nolan is great, but I’ve never seen any of the ‘Batman’ movies all the way through. I know they’re good. I just have zero interest in those kinds of movies.

– Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

– Michael Keaton

If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that’s pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren’t that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny.

– Michael Keaton

In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. ‘Work hard. Don’t quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.’

– Michael Keaton

I don’t know how to not be outside since I was a little kid.

– Michael Keaton

I get kinda self-conscious. I don’t want to know about my eyebrows. I’m born with them.

– Michael Keaton

Actors don’t get to be well-known if they’re horrible.

– Michael Keaton

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical – a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

– Michael Keaton

I don’t know – sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it’s annoying. I think, ‘Get over it.’ I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I’m sure I am obsessive.

– Michael Keaton

I’d get scripts and think: ‘What’s the point of this?’

– Michael Keaton

I read that John Hughes script for ‘Mr. Mom,’ and I thought, ‘This guy is a funny writer.’ I went: ‘You ought to stick around and direct this thing.’ But he didn’t; he left, and look what he became. A really legendary comedy director.

– Michael Keaton

I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

– Michael Keaton

I hope this doesn’t sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don’t they care about having to clean certain things.

– Michael Keaton

My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I’d laugh, but I’d look at him, and he was the first one who told me, ‘You know, funny is a powerful thing; it’s a wonderful weapon.’

– Michael Keaton

Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn’t like a lot of attention.

– 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

My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.

– Michael Keaton

I was so gullible as a kid.

– Michael Keaton

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

– Michael Keaton

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