Michael Keaton famous quotes

05-13-2025

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
-- Michael Keaton

#Sports #Team #Filmmaking
Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.
-- Michael Keaton

#Giants #Roles #Telling The Truth
Work hard. Donâ€™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

#Grateful #Hard Work #Being Thankful
I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.
-- Michael Keaton

#Permission #Performances #Jokes
It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.
-- Michael Keaton

#Thinking #Ideas #Actors
Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.
-- Michael Keaton

#Anesthesia #Wake Up #Kind
I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in Multiplicity.
-- Michael Keaton

#Multiplicity
To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.
-- Michael Keaton

#Memories #Toys #Fond Memories
High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.
-- Michael Keaton

#Fun #Thinking #Brain
I'll always stand by the first 'Batman'. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.
-- Michael Keaton

#People #Imperfection #Firsts
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.
-- Michael Keaton

#Thinking #Gone #World
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

#Thinking #Play #Issues
Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.
-- Michael Keaton

#Names #Two #Actors
From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique.
-- Michael Keaton

#Art #Unique #Perspective
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 have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.
-- Michael Keaton

#Sports #Kids #Guy
Is this a great country, or what?
-- Michael Keaton

#Country #Money #Great Country
You tell me another gang that's got a dental plan.
-- Michael Keaton

#Money #Gang #Dental
Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.
-- Michael Keaton

#Death #Dying #Way
It's great to be young and insane.
-- Michael Keaton

#Depression #Insane #Mental Illness
Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.
-- Michael Keaton

#Reality #Thinking #Hands
I'm a really sensitive person. I cry if I miss a cab. I've always worn my emotions on my sleeve. I think it makes life so much better when you can talk about anything.
-- Michael Keaton

#Thinking #Missing #Emotion
Shoot, two things I said I wasn't going to do: Cry and give air quotes,
-- Michael Keaton

#Two #Air #Giving
I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.
-- Michael Keaton

#Want #Hollywood #Comedy
Magna carta. Master charga.
-- Michael Keaton

#Money #Masters #Magna Carta

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