‘I don't think I'm that big a thing. You know, I'm a movie star. I get to play the leads in movies or I have so far but I don't feel I'm one of those people who can't walk down the street. For the most part people don't approach me. ‘I've only ever wanted to be a working actress. I never wanted my life to get so complicated I can't do my own dishes, having a maid or help around that makes my life uncomfortable. I'd much rather be alone. I'm an actress not a fad. ‘I'm not an idol or anything like that. I'm really lucky and fortunate but I think it's nice not to be too well known. ‘I'm pretty well known but not recognizably known. It's not like being Woody Allen. “That's Woody Allen”, they say. Or Jack Nicholson. He's the most comfortable person being a movie star I've ever seen. I've never seen anybody like hime. He's got the right attitude about being famous. ‘He says:” This is what I do and having your picture taken and being recognised is all part of it.” ‘ Keaton worries about everything. Her biological clock was a constant fret and she even went slightly public about it when the question came up during her movie ‘Baby Boom' half a dozen years ago. She's 47 now and you get the impression that her home has become her baby. She's certainly doting about it. And concerned. ‘Diane gets up in the morning and worries about it,' said one of her friends in Manhattan . When Keaton lived in New York with her three cats her friends would stock her freezer with easy-to-cook ten-minute gourmet meals and even then Keaton would make a mess of them. Writer Lynn Grossman says Keaton never cashes in on her name:'She wouldn't use it to get into a restaurant or get tickets for a hot show. She once wrote to a playwright rejecting his play but the letter was so nice that he wrote back thanking her for it and saying the letter was better than his play. She's the California girl who went to New York to become a serious stage actress. She first met Woody Allen when she was auditioning for his play ‘Play it Again, Sam'. It was her first Broadway break and she was scared to death. And Woody Allen was scared of her. One of the screen's great partnerships may never have happened if Allen hadn't had the courage to ask her out when the play moved to Washington . ‘I thought she was great the second I sxaw her but outside of rehearsal I was frightened to talke to her and she was frightened to talk to me. When the lost their inhibitions they moved themselves and their neuroses into a Manhattan apartment.. Tender and bizarre their love affair lasted for six years but their professional relationship goes on today. ‘Annie Hall' was a comedic carnival of a movie recording their break-up. It launched a fashion industry and even a language, Annie Hall-speak, when it was released sixteen years ago. They have been together again in the past months making ‘Manhattan Murder Mystery' which will be seen In Britain early next year. Diane Keaton has no doubts they will team again soon. As they specialise in adapting their material from real life maybe it could be about a reclusive woman creating her own sanctuary. They could title it ‘The House on the Hill.'
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