Keaton at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con.

Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), better known by his stage name Michael Keaton, is an American actor, producer and director. He is currently a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.

Quotes

• I'm gonna do four or five of these movies, and it's going to become my career. I'll have to keep expanding the bat suit, because I get fatter every year. I'll be bankrupt. I'll be out opening shopping malls, going from appearance to appearance in a cheesy van.
  • Reported in Bill Zehme, "Michael Keaton's Batman", Rolling Stone (June 29, 1989).

• I probably could've done this earlier, if I was more ambitious.
  • The New York Times (2008).

• I'll always stand by the first Batman. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.
  • MTV (2008).

• From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.
  • The Times (2011).

External links

• Michael Keaton on IMDb