Diane Lane Quotes

Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.

- Diane Lane

Self-Respect, Worth, Commodity

I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.

- Diane Lane

Car, Kid, Knew, Manhattan

All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting!

- Diane Lane

Incredible, Bring, About, Robert

The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition.

- Diane Lane

Some, Thighs, Largest, Human Condition

What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it!

- Diane Lane

Big, Burden, Projects, Psyche

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

- Diane Lane

Smile, Think, Better, Automatically

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

- Diane Lane

Myself, Generation, Want, Cheating

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

- Diane Lane

Always, Finger, Been, Pointed

I try not to be overly analytical.

- Diane Lane

Try, Analytical, Overly

I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion.

- Diane Lane

Life, My Life, I Remember, Humbling

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

- Diane Lane

Gun, Vibe, Everybody, Capacities

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

- Diane Lane

Think, Some, Betting, Fake

You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

- Diane Lane

Spine, Other, Your, Flexible

Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life.

- Diane Lane

My Life, Big, Nose, Stuck

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

- Diane Lane

Good, Enough, Away, Admirable

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

- Diane Lane

Think, I Think, Having, Slide

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.

- Diane Lane

Other, Gray Area, Line, Abide

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

- Diane Lane

Step, Always, Another, Refreshing

It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny.

- Diane Lane

Curious, Through, Stories, Wander

I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K.

- Diane Lane

Television, Right, Fit, Actively

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'

- Diane Lane

Audience, Always, Live Audience

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

- Diane Lane

Television, Kind, Maybe, Sheets

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

- Diane Lane

East, Coast, Amount, East Coast

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

- Diane Lane

Done, Off, Then, Scrape

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

- Diane Lane

Some, Like, Roles, Scrape

I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.

- Diane Lane

Greatness, Politics, Always, Struggle

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

- Diane Lane

New, Part, About, La

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

- Diane Lane

Nature, Making, Them, Shaping

I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication.

- Diane Lane

Love, Friendship, Other, E-Mail

Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving.

- Diane Lane

Kid, I Think, Dad, None

I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

- Diane Lane

Think, Which, Certainly, Shocking

Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye.

- Diane Lane

Before, Very, Ridiculously, Ran

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

- Diane Lane

Desire, Prove, Always, Unresolved

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.

- Diane Lane

Happy, Changes, Everybody, Opposite Sex

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

- Diane Lane

Think, I Think, Nobility, Martyred

I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale.

- Diane Lane

Think, Lucky, I Think, Wow

Some people fascinate me. They really worship at the altar of their careers, you know? And it's terrifying. It's sort of like setting a table and waiting for someone to come along and whoosh - push all the plates onto the floor.

- Diane Lane

Waiting, Some, Terrifying, Table

It's so great to watch sports live. I think everyone should watch it up close once, if possible. I would like to see every sport live at least once to fully appreciate what's happening on the court or on the field or on the ice or whatever the playing surface may be.

- Diane Lane

Ice, I Think, Least, Fully

A lot can change in the editing room.

- Diane Lane

Change, Room, Lot, Editing Room

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

- Diane Lane

Art, Hollywood, Delivery, Changed

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

- Diane Lane

Think, I Think, Could, Teenage Girls

Some days I want to get the boob job, some days I want to get the eye lift. Then other days, I'm like, 'Absolutely not! Have some integrity!'... But it's all about what makes you happy.

- Diane Lane

Some, Other, Like, Lift

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

- Diane Lane

Always, I Wish, Like, Laugh

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

- Diane Lane

Today, Tomorrow, Pop, Tart

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

- Diane Lane

Banana, Want, Works, Laugh

I think it's lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That's the great harvest, the great writing available to women. Whether that makes it to the screen, that's a whole other conversation.

- Diane Lane

Other, I Think, Journeys, Conversation

I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'

- Diane Lane

Calling, Had, Laurence, Oliver

Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons.

- Diane Lane

Insecurities, Failures, Just As Much

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

- Diane Lane

Kind, How, Relate, Day-Out

I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male.

- Diane Lane

Always, Been, Directors, Daddy

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

- Diane Lane

Contract, Like, Films, Fine Print

The weird thing about film, which I don't really care for, is that I'm always surprised when I see the film. One way or another, I'm always surprised.

- Diane Lane

Always, Which, Weird Thing, Surprised

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

- Diane Lane

Love, Having, Posters, Love Is

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

- Diane Lane

Love, Hands, Snail, Postage

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

- Diane Lane

Play, Holding On, Cozy, Aging

I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress.

- Diane Lane

Never, Actress, Even, Superstar

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

- Diane Lane

Through, Phase, Obsessed, Starting

You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control.

- Diane Lane

Making, Could, Attempting, Weirdest

When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

- Diane Lane

Young, Point, Identify, Wishing

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

- Diane Lane

Guilt, Mothers, Trump, Catholics

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

- Diane Lane

Some, Away, I Think, Adjustment

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

- Diane Lane

My Life, Career, Away, Hardest Part

I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence.

- Diane Lane

Confidence, Cruel, More, Insecure

I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman.

- Diane Lane

Woman, Up, George, Wonder

I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.

- Diane Lane

Some, Movie, Before, Premiere

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

- Diane Lane

Strong, Very, Dad, Ethic

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

- Diane Lane

Memory, Think, Actress, Short Memory

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

- Diane Lane

Young, Old, Very, Press

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

- Diane Lane

Tongue, Willingness, Set, I Believe In

Oh, I'm just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I'm not saying I never will. But it's like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird?

- Diane Lane

Chicken, Will, Like, Getting Old

Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.

- Diane Lane

Dead, Difficult, Playing, Bladder

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

- Diane Lane

Me, Reward, Than, Greater

Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective?

- Diane Lane

Perspective, Curious, Asking, Female

I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice.

- Diane Lane

Voice, Very, I Believe That, Female

I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years.

- Diane Lane

Character, Over, Attracted, Long-Term

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

- Diane Lane

Parent, More, Navigate, Present

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

- Diane Lane

Both Sides, Someone, Like, Sides

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

- Diane Lane

Father, City, New, Taxi

In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record.

- Diane Lane

Think, Which, Films, Elvis

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

- Diane Lane

Like, Knew, Felt, Daughter

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

- Diane Lane

Voice, Tell, Idea, Daughter

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

- Diane Lane

Planet, Infinite, Very, Finite

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

- Diane Lane

Love, Work, Away, Miss

I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger.

- Diane Lane

Love, Younger, Mile, Minute

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

- Diane Lane

Tree, Turn, Really, Lemons

I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.

- Diane Lane

Doing, Compare, Same Thing, Trouble

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

- Diane Lane

Parent, Bad, Even, Partner

I was really fortunate that I was not in 'successful movies' when I was younger, because whatever's given, there's an undertow that wants to take it away.

- Diane Lane

Away, Younger, Given, Fortunate

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

- Diane Lane

Career, Over, Made, Illusion

But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.

- Diane Lane

Love, Joy, Expression, Horses

It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film.

- Diane Lane

Lovely, Trauma, Rare, Portraying

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

- Diane Lane

Love, Affect, About, Impact

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

- Diane Lane

Through, Always, Like, Mouth

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

- Diane Lane

Attention, Important, Feel, Glamorous

I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.

- Diane Lane

Game, Never, Too Late, Game Plan

I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me.

- Diane Lane

Long Time, Going, Terrify, Rehearsed

I just enjoy going to the games, but if you're watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be rooting for the Lakers. You're on the winning end of things most of the time.

- Diane Lane

Play, Feels, Rooting, Lakers

I'm done saying 'I'm sorry I wasn't who you needed or wanted me to be' to everybody in my life.

- Diane Lane

My Life, Needed, Everybody, Sorry

I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was.

- Diane Lane

Thought, Always, Very, Blessed

It's wonderful being the underdog.

- Diane Lane

Wonderful, Being, Underdog

More yoga in the world is what we need.

- Diane Lane

World, More, Need, Yoga

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

- Diane Lane

Memory, True, Quite, Industry

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

- Diane Lane

Independent, Very, Films, Independent Films

Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

- Diane Lane

He, Genius

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