Quotes from Michael Keaton

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.

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.

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

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

I don't want dogs that have had the personality trained out of them. It's a partnership. I want to connect.

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

I've got six wonderful brothers and sisters.

All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

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

I can't sleep the first night in a hotel room.

'Beetlejuice' was a romp, man. 'Beetlejuice' was fun. I've never had so much fun in my life.

I get kinda self-conscious. I don't want to know about my eyebrows. I'm born with them.

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.

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.

If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.

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

I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.

There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.

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.

'Birdman' has kinda... changed things. I'm not saying you won't see traditionally made movies any more. But I've had meetings with directors, and they've said it makes them rethink everything. You can hate this movie, but you have to talk about it. It's going to go down as one of the most interesting movies ever made.

Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.

I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in 'Multiplicity.'