Diane Keaton Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm a lot of fun on a date.”

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

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