161 Quotes by Michael Keaton

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.

My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.

My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'

No, I don't see many movies. I don't even see my own movies.

People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.

One thing my mother had a nose for was inauthenticity.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid.

I didn't do it to say I wanted to do something for my child. ... If I didn't think it was good, I wouldn't have done it.