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" Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore. "
Michael Keaton
Celebrity
Big
Big Deal
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" I've got six wonderful brothers and sisters. "
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" To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it. "
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You
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" I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons just to keep you occupied.' Well, that brought everything to a screeching halt. 'Jeeze, dance lessons.' In retrospect, it would have been awesome, but then, 'Ugh, dancing - dancing's for sissies.' "
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" I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema. "
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Cinema
" 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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You
Think
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" Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport. "
Michael Keaton
Filmmaking
Team Sport
Team
" 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. "
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Day
Truth
Work
" I have a lot of energy, and I move around a lot in my club act. "
Michael Keaton
Around
Act
Club
" I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault. "
Michael Keaton
Think
Humble
Good
" We had four guys in the family, so somebody was always hitting somebody or chasing somebody or getting mad or fighting or wrestling - that was just what you did. So when you're the youngest, it's good for you. You figure out real early how to get out of headlocks and holds. "
Michael Keaton
Good
Early
Family
" The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough. "
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Come
Kind
Majority
" In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don'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
Humor
Simple
Thankful
" If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened. "
Michael Keaton
Batman
Happened
" For years, I'd go to the movies and see guys doing Boston accents and think, 'Oh please, God, I hope I never have to do that.' "
Michael Keaton
Doing
Think
Movies
" I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things. "
Michael Keaton
Movies
Hope
Sometimes
" Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down. "
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Slowing
Down
Great
" Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that's an invitation to be inauthentic. "
Michael Keaton
Reflection
People
Think
" 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. "
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Love
More
Watch
" Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle. "
Michael Keaton
Party
Lifestyle
Famous
" I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch. "
Michael Keaton
Sports
More
Watch
" I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that. "
Michael Keaton
Pretty
Audience
Good
" Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn't like a lot of attention. "
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Who
Someone
Like
" My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad. "
Michael Keaton
Day
Comfort
School
" 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
You
World
Time
" I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie. "
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Because
Director
Studio
" If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there. "
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Church
Old
Mission
" People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood. "
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Kinds
Make
People
" Actors don't get to be well-known if they're horrible. "
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Get
Well-Known
Horrible
" 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. "
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Three
Experience
Kid
" 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. "
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Family
Shy
School