A biography for Michael Keatonhasn’t been written yet.
“I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.”
“There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with.”
“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.”
“I don't want dogs that have had the personality trained out of them. It's a partnership. I want to connect.”
“I watch 'Morning Joe' occasionally. I used to watch a lot more than I do now, but I watched it, and all of a sudden, there was this love fest, for crying out loud - this inexplicable love fest one morning - for The Donald.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad.”
“If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.”
“Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It's lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.”
“There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.'”
“I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.”
“Technology, you know. I'm pretty horrible. I use it, but mostly I like to view it from afar. But I'm still fascinated by it.”
“Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.”
“I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.”
“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.”
“I have a lot of energy, and I move around a lot in my club act.”
“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, and really, the universe.”
“Guys never really get over their toys.”
“I've got six wonderful brothers and sisters.”