Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.

Diane Keaton

Categorized in : Mean Retirement Sunset

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

Diane Keaton

smile fun positive

I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.

Diane Keaton

independent sorry thinking

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

Diane Keaton

moments ordinary memories

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

Diane Keaton

too-much half stuff

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

Diane Keaton

life-experience age

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Diane Keaton

humor grace way

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

Diane Keaton

maids garbage thinking

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Diane Keaton

keep-going aging obstacles

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

Diane Keaton

creativity perfection

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

Diane Keaton

risk order thinking

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.

Diane Keaton

parenting believe children

We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

Diane Keaton

picks grows

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

Diane Keaton

self beautiful people

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

Diane Keaton

riddle trying past

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.

Diane Keaton

slow-down goal ideas

I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.

Diane Keaton

fighting soul fear

Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.

Diane Keaton

fearless regret years

...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.

Diane Keaton

want doors people

When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.

Diane Keaton

body eye interesting

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

Diane Keaton

never-quit