Michael Keaton movie quotes

“- Riggan: This is my career, this is my chance to do some work that actually means something.
- Sam: Means something to who? You had a career before the third comic book movie, before people began to forget who was inside the bird costume. You're doing a play based on a book that was written 60 years ago, for a thousand rich old white people...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Keaton - Riggan
Emma Stone - Sam

“There's nothing here about technique! There's nothing in here about structure! There's nothing in here about intentions! It's just a bunch of crappy opinions, backed up by even crappier comparisons... You write a couple of paragraphs and you know what? None of this cost you fuckin' anything! The Fuck! You risk nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!...” (continue)(continue reading)

Michael Keaton - Riggan

“- Riggan: Why did we break up?
- Sylvia: Because you threw a kitchen knife at me. And an hour later you were telling me how much you loved me.”
Michael Keaton - Riggan
Amy Ryan - Sylvia

“If I saw a competitor drowning, I'd shove a hose down his throat.”
Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc

“- Sam: Do you really think you'll be ready for opening tomorrow?
- Riggan: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, previews were pretty much a train-wreck. We can't seem to get through without a raging fire or a raging hard-on. I'm broke. I'm not sleeping like, you know, at all. And um, this play is kinda starting to feel like a major deformed version...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emma Stone - Sam
Michael Keaton - Riggan

“- Ray Kroc: What's your name?
- Leonard Rosenblatt: Leonard. Leonard Rosenblatt.
- Ray Kroc: Rosenblatt? What's a Jew doing selling Catholic bibles?
- Leonard Rosenblatt: Making a living.”
Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc
Andrew Benator - Leonard Rosenblatt

“You know when you make a copy of a copy, it's not as sharp as the original.”
Michael Keaton - Doug Kinney

“- Oishi Kazihiro: In Japan, when production lags, worker stays longer in factory.
- Hunt Stevenson: Okay, overtime. We can talk about overtime. I understand it now.
- Oishi Kazihiro: They do not do it for pay. They do it for company.
- Hunt Stevenson: Yeah, but that's there, this is here.”
Gedde Watanabe - Oishi Kazihiro
Michael Keaton - Hunt Stevenson

“You're a brave and stupid man.”

Michael Keaton - Carter Hayes

“Mac, I'm the president and C.E.O. of a major corporation with land holdings in 17 states... You run a burger stand in the desert. I'm national. You're fucking local.”

Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc

“If you've got time to lean, then you've got time to clean.”
Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc

“Jacey pretended to care for Alice so well, the illusion became so complete that even he was fooled.”
Michael Keaton - Narrator

“- Dick McDonald: Lots of people started restaurants.
- Ray Kroc: As big as McDonald's?
- Dick McDonald: Of course not.
- Ray Kroc: No one ever has and no one ever will because they all lacked that one thing... that makes McDonald's special.
- Dick McDonald: Which is?
- Ray Kroc: Even you don't know what it is.
- Dick McDonald: Enlighten me.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nick Offerman - Dick McDonald
Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc

You see those two towers? World Trade Center. I was an architect working on them. First they just wanted to build one but I said: "Fellas, we're here. What the hell, throw the other one up". Turned out pretty well, didn't it?

Michael Keaton - Billy Caufield

“Wow. You know... What has to happen in a person's life to become a critic anyway?”
Michael Keaton - Riggan

“- Dr. Weitzman: Hey Billy, we gotta go. Are you sure you can drive this thing?
- Billy Caufield: Are you kidding? I finished second at Daytona.”
Dennis Boutsikaris - Dr. Weitzman
Michael Keaton - Billy Caufield

“You know what - contracts are like hearts, they are made to be broken.”
Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc

“- Julia: It's discouraged for campaigns to interact. For instance, if one speechwriter were to date another, they might reveal something crucial about the campaign. Some campaigns have spies for just this purpose, whose job it is to follow the speechwriter, and to seduce her...
- Kevin: Or him...
- Julia: Into revealing her secrets.”
Geena Davis - Julia
Michael Keaton - Kevin

“- Riggan: Where did you read that?
- Clara: It was tweeted by @prostatewhispers.
- Riggan: No, that's not true.
- Clara: I know, but did you do it?
- Riggan: No, I didn't do it.
- Clara: Okay, then I'll just write that you're denying it.”

Michael Keaton - Riggan

“- Ray Kroc: Look, if you don't wanna make a profit, that's fine. But don't stop the rest of us.
- Dick McDonald: Us?
- Ray Kroc: Us, as in everyone but you.”
Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc
Nick Offerman - Dick McDonald

- Julia: You used me. You took the Mexico Ditch! You never even heard of it before!
- Kevin: Of course. I didn't realize you had a copyright on a ditch. What other forces of nature are yours?
- Julia: I will keep this simple. I. Me. This person in front of you. I do not. Not. The international symbol for "no". I do not want you near me again!
-... (continue)(continue reading)
Geena Davis - Julia
Michael Keaton - Kevin

Your Mom calls the vacuum cleaner "jaws"?
Michael Keaton - Jack

“- Anna: Oh, Henry, this might interest you. The mother whale in the Ukraine had triplets.
- Henry Hackett: She told me she was on the pill!”
Bobo Lewis - Anna
Michael Keaton - Henry Hackett

“That guy's dead!”

Michael Keaton - Bill Blazejowski

“The plane started to rattle and shake, and everyone on board was crying, and praying. And I just sat there. Sat there thinking that when Sam opened that paper it was going to be Clooney's face on the front page. Not mine.”

Michael Keaton - Riggan