Diane Keaton

“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.'”

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

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

“I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.”

“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.”

“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...”

“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...”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.”

“I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.”

“I drink red wine on ice to water it down.”

“As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.”

“My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.”