Happy Birthday Diane Keaton!

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Es ist kein Spaß, mich morgens selbst im Spiegel anzusehen.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

Es besteht ein großer Unterschied zwischen den Dingen, die wir nie vergessen können, und jenen, an die wir uns immer erinnern.

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

Die beste Art, seine Träume wahr zu machen.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

I'm a lot of fun on a date.

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.'

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.

The best part is that I'm still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more.

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.