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.

She starred in her first commercial vehicle with 1987's Baby Boom her first of four collaborations with writer-producer Nancy Meyers. I was primarily interested in religion because I wanted to go to heaven" but also stated that Diane Keaton considered herself an agnostic.

Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972) but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen beginning with Play It Again Sam in 1972. Her next two films with Allen Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975) establiDiane Keatond her as a comic actor. In addition to acting Diane Keaton is also a photographer real estate developer author and occasional singer.