Zitat des Tages von Michael Keaton:
I'm a very private person.
I don't want dogs that have had the personality trained out of them. It's a partnership. I want to connect.
To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.
High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.
In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.
Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn't like a lot of attention.
Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.
To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.
Chris Nolan is great, but I've never seen any of the 'Batman' movies all the way through. I know they're good. I just have zero interest in those kinds of movies.
Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?
I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema.
I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.
Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'
There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.'
Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down.
I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.
I always thought what made 'Beetlejuice' look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement.
The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.
I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic.
There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.
There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.
I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie.
I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.
I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.
People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood.
I'll always stand by the first 'Batman'. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.
For years, I'd go to the movies and see guys doing Boston accents and think, 'Oh please, God, I hope I never have to do that.'
My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me.
My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.
If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.
Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.
I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in 'Multiplicity.'
I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more.
I find there are a few places where I like to meditate more than in other places. There's a little Catholic church that I go to, and there's another temple I go to - there are certain places where I just feel more comfortable.