Michael Keaton Quotes

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

I come out of real life.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

My life is an open pamphlet.

It is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

You've got to be genuine and not try and be someone else - but be a better you all the time.

I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at all times, not just in front of people, or not just in a synagogue.

We only get better by telling our real story. That's the only way to be.

'Trill' is a combination of 'true' and 'real.' It's my philosophy.

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Say your truth-kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.