Michael Keaton Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

Trivia

The National Society of Film Critics gave him their Best Actor Award in 1989 for both Beetle Juice and Clean and Sober.

He is a big fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films nominated him for a Best Supporting Actor Saturn Award in 1990 for his performance in Beetle Juice.

He was given a Best Supporting Actor Award by the Kansas City Film Critics Circle in 1983, for Night Shift.

His breakthrough movie performance was in Night Shift along with Henry Winkler.

His performance in Live from Baghdad earned him a Golden Globe Nomination in 2003 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television.

He attended Montour High School in the Pittsburgh area.

He attended Kent State University in Ohio.

He was the smallest actor to play Batman.