Top 60 Diane Keaton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.”

— Diane Keaton

2. “I’ve always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, ‘I’m sorry, that’s just wrong,’ I tend to think she must be doing something right.”

— Diane Keaton

3. “What is perfection, anyway? It’s the death of creativity...”

— Diane Keaton

4. “Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.”

— Diane Keaton

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5. “I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.”

— Diane Keaton

6. “Its the journey that counts, not the arrival.”

— Diane Keaton

7. “Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.”

— Diane Keaton

8. “We’re all just trying to get through the day.”

— Diane Keaton

9. “Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it’s worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.”

— Diane Keaton

10. “I’m a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I’ve kept everything from my past.”

— Diane Keaton

11. “I’ve done all kinds of things I said I wouldn’t do and, of course, now I’m glad. Thrilled.”

— Diane Keaton

12. “We can’t save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it’s worth trying.”

— Diane Keaton

13. “Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.”

— Diane Keaton

14. “I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I’ve met a lot of extraordinary people over the years – and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.”

— Diane Keaton

15. “When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.”

— Diane Keaton

16. “I’m not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.”

— Diane Keaton

17. “Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.”

— Diane Keaton

18. “I drink red wine on ice to water it down.”

— Diane Keaton

19. “I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time – I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can’t help but have a profound effect on your life.”

— Diane Keaton

20. “What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.”

— Diane Keaton

21. “I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.”

— Diane Keaton

22. “I’m a lot of fun on a date.”

— Diane Keaton

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23. “My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.”

— Diane Keaton

24. “A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.”

— Diane Keaton

25. “I build a wall around myself. I’m hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.”

— Diane Keaton

26. “Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.”

— Diane Keaton

27. “My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.”

— Diane Keaton

28. “I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man – and trust is where the real power of love comes from.”

— Diane Keaton

29. “Stephen Shadley is a great collaborator. Over the years I’ve seen him work with a wide variety of clients and stylistic approaches. He listens to people in a way that makes them feel like they’re part of the process. Steve is an inspiration on all fronts, and, believe me, that’s a rare quality.”

— Diane Keaton

30. “I never understood the idea that you’re supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn’t something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.”

— Diane Keaton

31. “The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn’t bring happiness.”

— Diane Keaton

32. “My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven’t had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.”

— Diane Keaton

33. “Thanksgiving isn’t the only thing that has changed. This makes it reassuring somehow to go through the same ritual with the people you’re connected to. I guess the truth is, it all boils down to family. Right?”

— Diane Keaton

34. “No one can predict who is going to touch your heart in a way that changes your very being.”

— Diane Keaton

35. “I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.”

— Diane Keaton

36. “We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.”

— Diane Keaton

37. “Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we’re lucky.”

— Diane Keaton

38. “My mother was a listener. I’m a talker. I’m very comfortable talking.”

— Diane Keaton

39. “I do believe in saving shoes. But that does not make me a hoarder. I am not a hoarder. But why not save them? Styles come back.”

— Diane Keaton

40. “This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.”

— Diane Keaton

41. “Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.”

— Diane Keaton

42. “I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.”

— Diane Keaton

43. “I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.”

— Diane Keaton

44. “I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.”

— Diane Keaton

45. “The best relationships develop out of friendships.”

— Diane Keaton

46. “Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it’s all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.”

— Diane Keaton

47. “Relationships are hard. You’re lucky if you find someone.”

— Diane Keaton

48. “I have assessed my happiness ratio and this is the result. I am totally content whenever the ones I love are happy about something little, big, insignificant, whatever. I just don’t think anyone could possibly have the same wonderful, intense, compelling feelings that I have for this family of mine.”

— Diane Keaton

49. “I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.”

— Diane Keaton

50. “Daniel Wolf’s advice – want what you have.”

— Diane Keaton