Diane Keaton Quotes

I want actors. I want to be with other people. I don't wanna be alone, because of the connection when you're in a room, in a scene with someone, and it comes to life. You feel like the moment is something magic.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in awhile. And I don't have any responsibility.

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

Most of the theater I've done in the past was when I was a kid or a teenager so it feels like being a kid again. I'm happier than I've ever been. You really get to go to work every day and play, and try different things. I don't know, I've never felt so lucky to do this job. So I hope to do a lot more theater.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me so many wonderful roles. It's a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment?

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense.

When I was about 16, I did a Neil LaBute play called 'A Gaggle of Saints' from a collection of plays called 'Bash' - very violent story about a young Mormon who goes to Central Park with his friend and beats up a gay guy. But it was the first thing I had ever done, and I thought, "God, this is fun! This is far more fun than anything else I've been doing at school. I want to stick with it."

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.