A biography for Michael Keatonhasn’t been written yet.
“Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.”
“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.”
“I like people-people rather than movie people.”
“I've changed my diet a few times. Now I'm trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I'm busy, it's easy to lose weight.”
“One thing my mother had a nose for was inauthenticity.”
“Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.”
“I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.”
“The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.”
“People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.”
“In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.”
“I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.”
“In terms of the parallels, I've never related less to a character than Riggan.”
“I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.”
“I try to not be or associate with elitists.”
“I never wanted to play the short game.”
“I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.”
“Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.”
“Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.”
“I get kinda self-conscious. I don't want to know about my eyebrows. I'm born with them.”
“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.”