Michael Keaton Quotes
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Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
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To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.
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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.
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Ahhh... It's good to be young and insane.
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Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.
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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.
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Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.
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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.
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Is this a great country, or what?
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Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.
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We know there's a clear gap in fairness. There just is in equity. In a lot of ways, economically, racially, blah, blah, blah. It just is. Not blaming anybody, it just is. So then you say, that can be interpreted and misinterpreted and used by a lot of different people. Some people run for office; some people try to gain influence. I generally believe all that's true. It's just, which one is the person who is accurately turning that dial and which one is using it as bullshit and lies? So, this is a tricky area to step into.
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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.
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The thing about me not doing superhero movies, that's not true at all. Movies are movies. You just go.
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Shoot, two things I said I wasn't going to do: Cry and give air quotes.
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I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.
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Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.
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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.
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From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique.
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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.
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Work hard, don't quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and, always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.
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You tell me another gang that's got a dental plan.
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Magna carta. Master charga.
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I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in Multiplicity.
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I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.
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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?
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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.
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I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I do not like, I would do that.
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It's great to be young and insane.
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