Quotes by Michael Keaton

About Michael Keaton:

Michael John Douglas is an American actor, producer, director and comedian. He is currently a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.
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It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.

Michael Keaton

Chris Guest movies are funny.

Michael Keaton

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

Michael Keaton

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

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

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

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

When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny.

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

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is,...

Michael Keaton

'Beetlejuice' was a romp, man. 'Beetlejuice' was fun. I've never had so much fun in my life.

Michael Keaton

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

Michael Keaton

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.

Michael Keaton

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It real...

Michael Keaton

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

Michael Keaton

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

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

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you...

Michael Keaton

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Michael Keaton

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

Michael Keaton

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

Michael Keaton

Author Bio

  • NameMichael Keaton
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornSeptember 5, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Singer; Voice Actor; Film Director