Diane Keaton Quotes

I really like Robert De Niro.

I'd like to think I'm a good guy as I've gotten older.

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

There are a lot of actors whom I love, who personalize their work. I want to know everything about them, like De Niro, like Gary Oldman.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.