Diane Keaton Quotes

I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.

I am very normal, and I keep all the things that I have since many years ago.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.

There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

I'm a hoarder.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

Men fill up their heads and drawers and sheds with stuff from their teenage years.

I have talked about this before, I have always been bad at saving memorabilia.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

I'm a real hoarder.

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.