A biography for Michael Keatonhasn’t been written yet.
“There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.”
“I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema.”
“Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that's an invitation to be inauthentic.”
“I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?'”
“ביחס לגודל של ישראל, כמות הטכנולוגיה שיוצאת משם, זה אדיר, זה מדהים.”
“אני בר מזל שהסתדרתי מבחינה כלכלית. אני חצי סקוטי, אז אני טוב עם הכסף שלי.”
“הפופולריות והכישרון אינם ביחס ישר. יש שחקנים נהדרים שלעולם לא זוכים לאזכור.”
“שחקנים לרוב הם הטיפוסים הכי פחות נרקיסיסטים לדעתי.”
“בבית שבו גדלתי הכללים היו פשוטים: אל תוותר לעולם, תהיה אסיר תודה, תשמור על כבוד. אל תתלונן ותמיד תשמור על חוש הומור. אני הבן השביעי של הוריי ואני לא זוכר תקופה, שבה אבי לא עבד בשתי עבודות בו זמנית, או שאמי לא הייתה צריכה לרוץ אחרי אחד מהילדים או לבית החולים שבו התנדבה.”
“I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons just to keep you occupied.' Well, that brought everything to a screeching halt. 'Jeeze, dance lessons.' In retrospect, it would have been awesome, but then, 'Ugh, dancing - dancing's for sissies.'”
“Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and go home with dirt in my fingernails, because then you really feel that you've done something.”
“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.'”
“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 really happened.”
“Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'”
“For years, I'd go to the movies and see guys doing Boston accents and think, 'Oh please, God, I hope I never have to do that.'”
“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.”
“I went through a lazy period.”
“I liked going to Catholic school.”
“I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault.”
“The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.”