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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.' "

Michael Keaton

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" I was an altar boy, which I loved and am very proud of. It was strict, but also really nice. "

" Actors don't get to be well-known if they're horrible. "

" I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh. "

" If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened. "

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" The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough. "

" Generally, I move in the direction of art. "

" I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic. "

" I used to say no to almost everything because I thought, 'I've got enough dough, I know what I want to do, and I know what I'm capable of.' "

" I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key. "

" The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more. "

" Chris Nolan is great, but I've never seen any of the 'Batman' movies all the way through. I know they're good. I just have zero interest in those kinds of movies. "

" I was so gullible as a kid. "

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Gullible

Kid

" 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. "

Michael Keaton

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" 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. "

" In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it. "

" I went through a lazy period. "

" I have some tremendous, tremendously loving, generous friends all over the world. "

" Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry. "

" I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad. "

" I try to not be or associate with elitists. "

Michael Keaton

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" I've got six wonderful brothers and sisters. "

" From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique. "

" I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world. "

" I was never a huge 007 fan, but I sure liked Sean Connery. I'm sure Pierce Brosnan is good and has his moments, but I've not seen him; I've only seen bits and pieces on TV, so I can't really judge. Pierce looks very natural in the role. "

" I think one reason I really like women and like working with women is because of my sisters. "

Michael Keaton

Working

Women

" 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. "

" I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes. "

" 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. "