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" 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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" 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

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" Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy. "

Michael Keaton

Crazy

" I have a lot of energy, and I move around a lot in my club act. "

" People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood. "

" I don't know how to not be outside since I was a little kid. "

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

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

Michael Keaton

Batman

Happened

" There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with. "

" I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor. "

" I went through a lazy period. "

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

" I saw some Pixar movies like 'The Incredibles' and thought, 'This is extraordinary. These are some of the best movies I've seen.' "

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

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

" I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse. "

" I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are very few jobs where you're held up to public scrutiny. "

" I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie. "

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

" I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better. "

" 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. "

" There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with. "

" 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.' "

" I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer.' I went: 'You ought to stick around and direct this thing.' But he didn't; he left, and look what he became. A really legendary comedy director. "

" I like people-people rather than movie people. "

Michael Keaton

People

Than

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

" I'm just shocked and thankful that I've gotten away with everything - experimenting here, trying at this, failing at that, being good in some things, not so good in others. It's kind of amazing that people are still sticking by me. When they come up to me in the street, I just want to write them all cheques. "