Quotes from Diane Keaton

The train surges forward. I start singing an old Irving Berlin song Mom used to play on the piano: "How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?…And if I ever lost you, how much would I cry? How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?

you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it you're nobody.

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

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

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.

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.

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.

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

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.

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

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.

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.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

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

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