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Diane Lane quotes

Ocupation: Actress

Life: b. January 22, 1965

Birthday: January 22

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You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

Topics: Inspirational, Stuff, Heavy

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I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

Topics: Smile, Thinking, Looks

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.

source: - "Richard Gere and Diane Lane interview – NIGHTS IN RODANTHE". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 26, 2008.

Topics: Hands, Letters, Mail, Postage, Postage Stamps

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

Topics: Motivation, Blessing, Challenges

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.

source: - "12 Movie Stars Who Experienced Career Resurrections", www.indiewire.com. October 31, 2013.

Topics: Thinking, Soul, Secret, Teflon

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

Topics: Horse, Expression, Joy

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

Topics: Laughing, Want, Down And

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.

source: - Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

Topics: Fun, Attitude, Thinking, Incorporating, Entertainment Industry

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Topics: Steps, Refreshing

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

Topics: Men, Mouths, Way, Pacs

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

Topics: Important, Attention, Enough

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

Topics: Long, Kind, Term

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.

Topics: Daughter, Mother, School

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Topics: Winning, Race, Weather

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

Topics: New York, Growing Up, Father

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.

Topics: Night, Hair, Jeans

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

Topics: People, Care, Rewards

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

Topics: Girl, Teenage, Thinking, Text Messaging

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

Topics: Children, Shoes, Roles

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.

Topics: Beautiful, School, Enough

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

Topics: Mistake, Parent, Partners, Bad Parent

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

source: - "Memory Lane" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2002.

Topics: Laughing, Wish, Looks, Good Laugh

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.

Topics: Careers, People, Illusion, Illusion Of Control

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

Topics: Thinking, Fake, Would Be

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.

Topics: Children, Interesting, Acting

You can't get work without working.

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.

Topics: Dog, Cat, Apples

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.

Topics: Reality, Different, Television, Reality Television

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.

Topics: Believe, Example, Tongue

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.

Topics: Gun, Directors, Negative

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.

Topics: Done, Film, Infinite

I try not to be overly analytical.

source: - Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

Topics: Trying

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

Topics: Kids, Missing

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

Topics: East, World, Journalism, East Coast

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Topics: Independent, Different, Film

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.

Topics: Nice, Teaching, Home, Home Teaching

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

Topics: New York, Parent, Mama

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.

Topics: Cheating, Would Be, Generations

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

Topics: Careers, Going Away, Hardest

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.

Topics: Horse, Drawing, Age, Painting And Drawing, Rocking Horses

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

Topics: Art, Risk, Hollywood

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

Topics: Desire, World, Prove

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.

Topics: Mother, Thinking, Years, Attentiveness

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

Topics: Shoes, Trying, Boots

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

Topics: Inspirational, Parent, Brain

More yoga in the world is what we need.

Topics: Yoga, Needs, World

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

Topics: Feelings, Young, Copies

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.

Topics: Film, Contracts, Fine, Fine Print

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

Topics: Memories, Thinking, People, Short Memory

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

Topics: Strong, Father, People, Strong Work Ethic, Protestant Work Ethic

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

source: - "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

Topics: Powerful, Fighting, Two

There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy.

source: - "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

Topics: Responsibility, Joy, Want

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

source: - "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

Topics: Romantic Love, Goal, Sometimes

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

source: - "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

Topics: Free Time

I know I've made the right decision when I've followed my heart.

Topics: Heart, Decision, Made, Right Decision

A grandparent will tell you, "Have fun!" and a parent will tell you, "Be safe, do a good job, make me proud." You know what I mean? I try to grandparent myself now, because it's important to have fun, it's important to impart the fun in things to other people.

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Fun, Mean, Grandparent

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. I think a lot of women are contained within the parentheses of shoulds and role-play. It's all about entitlement and history. It's all about upper-body strength - and exacting your will.

source: - Source: deadline.com

Topics: Black And White, Thinking, Play, Parentheses, Gray Area

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

source: - "Emmys: Why Diane Lane Feels 'Remorse and Guilt' About 'Cinema Verite'". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2011.

Topics: Firsts, First Time, Virgins

I think a lot of the time, the studio system is so compelled to kowtow to its fear that women are not going to be found sympathetic. It just sort of euthanizes any hope of more diverse examples of the emotional realities of people. Representing my gender, I think, "Well, I have those emotions, why don't those ever get brought to the screen so I can feel recognized?"

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Reality, Emotional, Thinking

One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my life [Laughs], the most rewarding and deepening, so I have a delight in portraying mothers.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Mother, Laughing, Being The Best

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

Topics: Inspiring, Mothers Day, Catholic

As an actor, you hope to obtain this mind meld and sometimes I feel like I'm chasing a horse holding on to its tail and getting dragged, and other times I feel much more velcroed into the saddle. And I'm not the knower of which is better or best as a process, it's just as random as the weather in terms of what my subjective experience is.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Horse, Mind, Holding On

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: First Love, Progress, Painting

What happens between action and cut for me is a blur, I go almost into a whiteout, and then I see the film and I'm like, "Oh that's what I did? Cool!"

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Cutting, Action, Film

I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. 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. Sometimes there's this real naïveté that people possess, where they want you to infuse a scene with a certain quality, and it's like an apology. "I read the script, didn't you? What's the agenda here?"

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Dog, Real, Cat

You see the movie with the music and the editing and all the parts that you weren't there for when it was being filmed, and you really appreciate all the names that are scrolling by. You realize that you accomplished so much.

source: - "Diane Lane, John Malkovich and Randall Wallace Interview SECRETARIAT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 1, 2010.

Topics: Editing, Names, Appreciate, Scrolling

I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

Topics: Thinking, Different, Easy

I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

source: - "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

Topics: Lying, Trying, Stuff, Don't Lie, Brutally Honest

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.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Communication, Thinking

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