Diane Keaton Quotes

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

I am all the ages I've ever been.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.

If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.

I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.