You don't get bored with stuff like 'Birdman.'
— Michael Keaton
I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid.
Actors don't get to be well-known if they're horrible.
No, I don't see many movies. I don't even see my own movies.
I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.
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.
I have a lot of energy, and I move around a lot in my club act.
I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.
I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault.
If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that's pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren't that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny.
Actors will say 'yes' to anything.
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.
There are very few jobs where you're held up to public scrutiny.
I was so gullible as a kid.
I can't sleep the first night in a hotel room.
I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic.
I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.
I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad.
I liked going to Catholic school.
I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk.
'Beetlejuice' was a romp, man. 'Beetlejuice' was fun. I've never had so much fun in my life.
Guys never really get over their toys.
There just is not one person in my family who is not funny.
I have some tremendous, tremendously loving, generous friends all over the world.
In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.'
I try to not be or associate with elitists.
I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.
Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore.
Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.
I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.
Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It's lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.
I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema.
There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.
To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.
I always thought what made 'Beetlejuice' look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement.
Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and go home with dirt in my fingernails, because then you really feel that you've done something.
I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.
If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.
I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.
I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.
I've got six wonderful brothers and sisters.
I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?'
Chris Guest movies are funny.
I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.
Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things.
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!
Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down.
I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key.
Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.
