Quotes from Diane Keaton

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.'

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

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.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

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

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

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.

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

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

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.

I'm a lot of fun on a date.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

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

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

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.

I couldn't tell a joke if my life depended on it.

So, what is beauty if it isn't Angelina Jolie and Reese Witherspoon? Why do we try to pin it down by categorizing it as absolute? Why limit it at all? Why is classic beauty the gold standard? Why is gold the gold standard? And what is "classic"? What's precious about precious stones? Why are diamonds a girl's best friend? Don't tell me what beauty is before I know it for myself.

Beautiful makes you come back for more. It makes you ask questions. It's vast, unknowable, and magnificent. That's part of its power. It makes you think about the experience it's giving you. That's when I knew what I wanted. I've been chasing it ever since.

Beauty flourishes on sorrow. It's enriched by the knowledge that life is fleeting, sometimes cruel, and often ends without resolution.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it. What we're searching for is what we lack.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder are mirrors a waste of time?