- His documentary “Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor” was nominated for an Emmy in 2004 as Outstanding Nonfiction Special.
- He was nominated for a 2005 Teen Choice Award for “Choice Movie Scary Scene”.
- The National Society of Film Critics gave him their Best Actor Award in 1989 for both Beetle Juice and Clean and Sober.
- He worked as a cameraman at WQED in Pittsburgh.
- He is a big fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Pittsburgh Pirates.
- In 2004 he produced a documentary about Mister Rogers titled Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor.
- 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 appeared in several episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, before moving to Los Angeles to try to break into television.
- He was given a Best Supporting Actor Award by the Kansas City Film Critics Circle in 1983, for Night Shift.
- He has not legally changed his name to “Keaton”.
- His breakthrough movie performance was in Night Shift along with Henry Winkler.
- He shared a MTV Movie Award Nomination for Best Kiss in 1993, with Michelle Pfieffer.
- 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.
- His starring performance in Beetlejuice earned acclaim, rave reviews and a lot of money moving him to Hollywood’s “A-list”.
- He attended Kent State University in Ohio.
- He changed his name because Michael Douglas and Mike Douglas were already registered with the actors guild.
- He was the smallest actor to play Batman and the fourth actor to portray the character.
- Michael:(on playing Batman
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.
- Michael: (on directing a feature film) I probably could've done this earlier, if I was more ambitious.
- Michael: (on doing a villain role in a superhero film) I think it'd be fun because those are the roles where you get to chew it up.
- Michael: (asked if he regretted not returning as Batman in "Batman Forever") I was waiting in line for another movie and just kind of poked my head in... watched about 10 minutes. I saw enough to know that I made the right decision.
- Michael: (comparing working on "Batman Returns" to the first "Batman" film) In some ways, this one was harder, because I felt like I was doing an impersonation of myself. Which, aside from being nearly impossible, is really weird.
- Michael: (on his birth name being Michael Douglas) Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name. One of them is doing quite well from what I understand, the other is making cheap porn movies... (pause) like Basic Instinct.
