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 | WHAT THEY SAY ************************************************************************* A good collection of quotes about Diane from who has worked with her and not only. From her official biography the greatest quotes from Allen, Beatty and so on. |
~ DIRECTORS & SCREENPLAY WRITERS 
| WOODY ALLEN "I’ve always thought she was born to be a movie star." (Rolling Stone, June 30, 1977) DK, p. 1 "Tony (Roberts) and I couldn’t stop laughing at Diane. It was nothing you could quote later; she couldn’t tell a joke if her life depended on it. Tony tried to figure out one time, what it is she does. He says she has this uncanny ability to project you back into an infantile athmosphere, and you are suddenly a kid again. There is something utterly guileless about her. She’s a natural." (Skow, John. “Love, Death and La-De- Dah.” Time, 26 Sept, 1977 p. 71) DK, p. 13. "If in some way I’ve contributed to bringing Diane to the attention of the public, it satisfies me more than anything else I’ve done in films." (People, 26 Dec, 1978) DK, p. 17 "Her personality is so large, it’s hard to see anything else on the screen. It’s like your’re dancing with Fred Astaire, and you may be a decent dancer yourself, but your eye goes to Astaire. Your eye goes to Keaton. She has such a natural gift, she eclipses everyone." (Decurtis, Anthony; “Woody Allen: The Rolling Stone Interview”. Rolling Stone 16 Sept, 1993 p. 48) DK, p. 116 "In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it." "I’ve had that problem before with believe it or not , Diane Keaton , she’s someone who I used to write these sharp remarks before and she could never do them. She’s the funniest person I’ve ever met and always used to steal the picture from me. I always wrote the picture for me and I would wright her a secondary role and when the movie was actually came out she was always the funny star and I was always in the secondary part , but she couldn’t do any of those one liners either for some reason ." "She has the most ingratiating laugh , it’s fatal . " "She likes popular success , but she won’t move an inch for it. She works on her own terms" "Diane has gone her own route over the decades, and has proved to be a perennial, beyond fashion or trends . She proves that the cream rises to the top and stay there." "My opinion is that with the exception of Judy Holliday, she's the finest screen comedienne we've ever seen." “The theatres have to thank Diane Keaton for “Annie Hall”. Living with that wonderfull, warm-hearted person I learned to view life through her eyes…..” “When I first met her, as young as she was she would never hesitate to express her likes and dislikes, no matter how against the grain they may have been. If she liked something unpopular, she liked it with no defensiveness; that was just it. And if she didn't, you could tell her all day long that, say, these plays of Shakespeare are masterpieces, and if she didn't like them, she just didn't care. She had utter, total conviction in her own taste - and her own taste was superb. She knows who the good actresses and actors are, and what the good plays are, and what the good paintings are, and who's funny and who's not. There's some unclouded instinct in her that's never been messed up by peer presure. She was a supporter of, I think the best instincts of mine” “She'd come in every day with an absolutely spectacularly imaginative combination of clothes. They were just great...A football jersey and a skirt...and combat boots and, you know, oven mittens” “a kid in school who for two days whines about how lousy she did on a test and ends up getting 100. That's Diane in a nutshell" “You'd never know it from just a quick meeting with her - or the quality she projects - but Keaton is a genuine intellectual..When you meet her she is a gangly, sometimes awkward, sweet kind of actress, and you tend to think of the other actresses you meet who are obsessed with the part and agents and parties and she's not that way at all. She is very responsive to books and ideas. If she reads Camus or Dostoevski, it doesn't just wash over her. She gets very very involved with ideas and knows what they're saying and how it affects her life, and life in general. Her personality belies that completely, and that's the most curious thing about her” | | | | | | WARREN BEATTY "I think I’ve finally reached a point in life when I’m learning to control my own restlessness… both in my work and with women. Maybe with Diane, more than with any other woman I’ve been involved with, I’ve learned that it’s not necessary to keeep running after something else." (Gittelson, Natalie. "The Faces of Diane Keaton". McCall’s Nov. 1978) DK, p. 62 "I loved Diane Keaton … she made me laugh and made me cry …. If she had not made Reds, I do not know what I would have done". (Parker, John. "Warren Beatty: The Last Great Lover of Hollywood." New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994) DK, p. 62 “Ms.Keaton, you make every director you work with, look good.” "She is industrious , punctual , and that kind of person who makes plans and stick with them" | | | | | | GILLIAN ARMSTRONG “there’s none of that sort of star business about being late or not turning up or staying out all night, or any of those things. She is absolutely dedicated and hardworking” | | | | | | RICHARD BROOKS “We shot for 76 days, of which Diane shot 76 days...She has tremendous range...She’s shy, but she’s got stainless steel inside of her. She doesn’t break very easily. She doesn’t have a high opinion of herself, but she’s got a lot of guts. And she’s tough. She is tough internally.” “She has more artistic courage than anyone I know.” | | | |  | BO GOLDMAN “I often feel like a failed playwright, but Diane makes me feel good about writing for movies.” | | | | | | ADINA HOFFMAN “At least he’s cast Diane Keaton. Thank God. Keaton boosts Manhattan Murder Mystery up several high rise floors. Her presence in the film adds some of the wild skittishness that’s been missing from Allen’s recent movies.” | | | | | | HAL HINSON “All the signature Keaton mannerisms-all the hesitations and stammers and idiosyncratic, amusical phrasings, the hair business, the seductive coyness-are there in both performances, as they were whenever Bogart was on screen, or Davis, or Hepburn. But added to them is a very modern sense of authenticity.” | | | | | | MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG “She’s an original. Diane is not a version of anyone.” | | | |  | NANCY MEYERS "We were all riveted to her in Annie hall , which is the movie we all really sort of first notice her in .She is like a brand new kind of movie star and movie heroine ." "Diane is a beautiful looking woman of her age . And , of course , the big secret , which none of us knew , was she had this amazing body ." "She is absolutely hilarious and unpredictable which is probably what makes her so funny , ‘cause you don’t see some of this coming ." "The goofy part is one of the greatest parts about Diane. Those arms flailing a little longer than you expect them to be, her eyes are sad, her smile's happy. Her face registers every emotion, sometimes all in one take. Diane's an absolute original. There was nobody like her before, and if there's been anybody like her since, they'll say she's 'Keaton-esque." "Her phrasing here now .... That’s all Diane , that’s just how Diane , messes with words . She says the words as written but its pauses and places , just as nobody else . She’s original !" "The one thing about that crying montage which is hard for me to say unless in front of her but there is sort of no other actress alive that could do this and hold that of and cry that many scenes in a row and have that kind of depths to the crying to comedy . I mean she is hilarious in it and the audience gets on a row with this scene. It’s just pretty amazing and it’s all because of Diane who takes them on the ride . But it’s a unique talent. I mean , she’s the , she is funny in her way and I really can’t think of another actress that could have possibly pulled that off for me." "I write comedy with this dramatic moments , and she can do it all.When I write a funny scene , I want it to be funny. Not all great actresses can do that . And she can." "On the first day of shooting , it was like letting a racehorse out of the stable. She took off and I said “ Oh , man , we are in for a ride . She is going for it. “ " | | | | | | GERALD L’ECYER "I worked for her for three years , and she likes oddballs . We got very close . I remember going to a Hamburger Hamlet with her shortly after she and Pacino broke up , and she was sobbing into her potato skins . I didn’t know what to do , so I stayed there . She always would say things like ‘ You and I run toward pain with outstretched arms . She is someone who is extremely in touch with her feelings . She’s passionate and fearless about feeling them." | | | | | | THOMAS BEZUCHA "I feel like she’s an emotional magician. She rides the waves is what she does in this fearless, jaw dropping way. Just whatever she feels, that’s where she goes in the moment, and it’s pretty spectacular to watch. The fun thing is you never get the same thing twice ." "She kept Sarah Jessica on her toes. In fact, that's probably putting it lightly. I think there were times Diane just plain scared and intimidated her -- all in the service of the movie, of course.(…) It took 20 years, but I finally did get to dress her . " | | | | | | JOHN BURNHAM ( former agent) "Underneath her charmingly self- effacing persona , Keaton is organized and tough and smart." "She uses the time in her day like no one I’ve ever seen." | | | |  | BILL ROBINSON ( producing partner) "Even if she had been a cashier at Woolworth’s , Diane would have been drawn to the wrong men. " “she’s a Pilgrim nightmare, up and dawn and in bed at 10” | | | |  | TIERNEY GEARON (photographer) "Keaton’s unique style is a little bit haute , a little bit Charlie Chaplin , a little bit street an a whole lot nobody-but-hers." |
FAMILY & FRIENDS  | DOROTHY HALL (Diane’s mother) “Diane had an absolute panic to be different. She wore black stockings and eye makeup as black as her stockings" | | | | | | DORRIE HALL (Diane’s sister) “Everything she did was big. Her laugh was big. She walked like a truck driver. She exaggerated everything.” | | | | | | LESLIE MORGAN (high school friend) “We were the high school weirdos. We thought of ourselves as two beatnicks, but even then Diane had a great sense of style-her mother made lots of her clothes.” | | | | | | DANIEL WOLF( art dealer, Diane’s long friend) "She wakes up every morning and she sees her clothes like paint coming out of a paint tube: What am I going to mix today?" |
CO-STARS  | TONY ROBERTS “I remember Woody calling me one day and saying he’s just watched the rough film (Annie Hall) and discovered that whenever he cut away from Annie, it lost something. That’s the way a lot of us feel about Diane.” | | | |  | KATHTRYN GRODY “She likes any odd, out-of-the-way, eccentric nook or cranny, like the diner most people wouldn’t even stop at.”.. “Diane likes the funkier kind of places.” “She disavows all the trappings of fame, She’s not waiting in line for heads to turn at the Russian Tea Room. She’s almost too good to be true, for a movie star.” | | | | | ELLIOT GOULD “Diane Keaton is very intelligent and sensitive and sexy. The really funny thing about Diane is that here she is the girl from Orange County, California, from a puritan-Methodist background, and yet she has this funny, abstract mind, some chemical in her that makes her original and funny. She’s like an Amish groupie.” | | | | | | LEONARDO DI CAPRIO “I never felt more funny in my life. She cracked up at everything. She has the greatest laugh in the world, and I had a crush on her. I’m sure everyone else in the world does too. She’s a fantastic lady and one of America’s greatest actresses.” | | | |  | MERYL STREEP “She has no cover on her emotions...And because her work always contains an element of sadness-even the comedies - I thought Diane had the right sensibility to play Bessie. She’s just incapable of doing anything phony. I also felt that Diane would be... what she is in the film: transcendant, magical.” "I had met her once, in 1978, when I was on Broadway doing a musical called "Happy End"; she was already a BIG star and she came backstage with Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. When she walked into my dressing-room, I just went: 'Arggghhh'! (She laughs). Among the many many lovely things - because she is so ineffably charming, and I mean that as a great compliment - she said, "I hope we get to work together some day." I choked! "My dream!" "Good luck." I'm really happy that we got her to play the part. | | | | | | JACK NICHOLSON “We had a good, you know, working relationship. And she’s one of the most fun people to work with. There’s no, no drag, you know. It’s all BING and ready and...you know she learns everybody’s lines and you know, she is ready to roll. And very unpredictable, which means you can be alive, and moment to moment with her. She would probably find a lot to find fault with in this particular approach to making a documentary, and getting poopsy about the period or too much...so you made a movie...blah. That’s sorta the way she is.” "Energy is the most amazing thing about Diane. Her basic unit of energy is so enormous. It’s hard to decipher." "She is complicated enough that at this point , she’s not going to be involved with someone as a halfway measure. She , at least , knows what she doesn’t want ." "Believe me , Diane and I are very different with one another than these two characters are on screen . You bet your bottom dollar on that one! Oh , God! She calls me disgusting all the time . she thinks I am sexually distorted . I tease her , I grab her ass. I throw her hair around . She calls me a ham , I call her a piece of cheese . She would start a lot of scenes by saying “ Jack , you are absolutely disgusting! “ " | | | | | | STEVE MARTIN "She doesn’t do funny . She is just Diane!" | | | |  | SARAH JESSICA PARKER "She is a raw nerve , but she is practiced . Her emotions are available to her , but make no mistake about her : she has technique." “She came to work promptly at 5 in the morning dressed in cinched-waist skirt, heels, hat, while the rest of cast was in sweat pants. You can’t be a woman and gotten where she’s gotten without showing up on time” | | | | | | CRAIG T. NELSON "There are so many multifaceted people inside of her . All of them are very well rounded . I think you can meet her and you think you know her and only get to know one of those people within the multitude she carries in her." | | | | | | FRANCES MCDORMAND " I would get to hang out with Diane Keaton , who I adore. She’s entered our iconic consciousness as a film actor . I think people really feel like they know her , but what they really know is her comedic genius. " | | | | | | MEG RYAN "When she likes something she goes , “ S-H-I-T”! And then if it can be different or better , she’ll go , “ Yeah , uh-huh. Okay Meg , let’s do it again! “ . We didn’t have one second of rehearsal before or during the shooting of the movie. I got to work and she set up an obstacle course , and I was going to fill it in. And it helped me ‘cause Eve was run-around. She was at the mercy of forces and Diane would set things up so it felt like that for me. I felt like she trusted people and I felt liberating because of that." "I’m positive. I don’t remember there not being a Diane Keaton. I first saw her back in the days when everybody was wearing disco clothes and that’s what it was. And then there was Annie Hall . The whole idea that there was a person who was applauded for their individuality was revolutionary for a lot of my friends. We couldn’t believe it. " | | | | | | AMANDA PEET "Diane's just luminous. She has this sparkling presence that hasn't gone away. She hasn't Botoxed and injected herself and siliconed herself into some kind of weird creature . She looks fantastic, and then there's that whole adorable thing she still has going." ..I rented Annie Hall last night, which I didn't see, because I had to watch Racing with the Moon and the 'Oh Christ" moment, but the other day I was doing a scene with Diane, and she says, "I love you," and I say, 'I love you more' and then one time we were doing it, I just said, 'I lurf you.' I was like, 'Oh my fucking god, I just quoted Annie Hall to Diane Keaton, I just quoted Annie Hall to Diane Keaton, I just quoted Annie Hall to Diane Keaton!' It was the scariest moment. She looked blankly, I said, 'That's from Annie Hall,' and she's like, 'Oh, oh, god, right, yeah, right.' Another time? I said, 'You do it,' and she says, 'No, you do it,' and I say, 'No, you must be Don Francesco's sister,' from Love and Death, and again, she just stares at me. They don't understand what they've meant to people! She practically didn't recognize it! I go, 'No, you must be Don Francesco's sister,' Hello! Are you crazy?" You can't let them know, then you'd be a little psychotic," she says, smiling. "If I really told Diane, 'I need to talk to you,' then that she might think I'm a stalker, a deranged person. I try to just be... appropriate. It's really hard sometimes, though." | | | | | | MANDY MOORE "Meeting Diane, I was completely nervous. I remember walking in to Michael Lehmann's office during preproduction and sort of shaking her hand for the first time and being completely in awe and nervous, like how am I going to pretend like she's my mother? I love her so much, she's on a pedestal anyway so I sort of tried to use that a little bit." | | | | | | LAUREN GRAHAM "Diane is one of the girls and she doesn’t like when you know any kind of like “oh but Miss Keeton you must have” and she’s like “oh God” no look she doesn’t want to be your you know she wants to be one of us and doesn’t like the I think I don’t know…the feeling that there is some kind of preciousness you know regarding her or something and she’d be like “oh moron”. No that’s her way of endearment and so once you get that and can get over you know if you’re me how much her work has meant to you and you have to get over that then we just had a really really good time and a lot of opportunities to just kind of sit around and you know talk." |
OTHER ACTORS  | CLIVE OWEN "Diane Keaton is one of the greatest actresses ever to grace the silver screen. I want to work with her so badly I’d become an American citizen to do so. Diane was nominated for Best Actress in 2003 for her film, ‘Something’s Gotta Give”. She didn’t win, and that was fucking highway robbery, mates. Watch the above clip from that movie and see that good acting doesn’t even require words. I don’t know how she does it, and I don’t know if I ever will be able to. I would’ve spoken. " | | | | | | RAQUEL WELCH “I think it's encouraging that Diane Keaton gave such a fabulous performance with Jack in the movie "Something's Gotta Give." That was just a work of art, as far as comedy is concerned, for me, that comedy performance that she gave. And it proved that she is still so viable and still so fabulous, as much as ever she was. And so I think that's encouraging.” | | | | | | NATALIE PORTMAN "I love Diane Keaton . She is sort of my hero. She can do anything , she is just the best there is ." | | | | | | JENNIFER TILLY "She( Diane Keaton ) was so intent on making everybody feel like it was an ensemble and being part of the ensemble and just really being a regular person that that created a very happy set." |
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