Diane Lane Quotations

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

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.

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

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

We're so blessed with our pastor and his wife. They live their lives in a way we're supposed to, in their caring for one another and having a focus on God.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

You can't get work without working.

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

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

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

I try not to be overly analytical.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

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.

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.

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

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

More yoga in the world is what we need.

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.

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

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

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.

He's dating again, ... He's out there and it's comparatively a breeze for him, at 71, of course, because he's a guy. We deal with that in the movie, and it is quite funny.

Josh was mortified in the beginning, but now he's completely hooked. I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

We're both on the rebound, or whatever that terminology is when you're in recovery from a divorce. We have that in common, both scratching our heads fighting being cynical. And it's hard. You need a lot of humor to fight cynicism, and this movie has it - both, actually. So it's great.

We?re not a banking institution, yet a large portion of our time is taken up by trying to collect money.

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

I waited a decade to get here, so I better enjoy it! I love it. I'm a late bloomer, and it's just all good.

There's a persona to being an actress.... That could put anyone into the shrink's office. Especially if you're fifteen, sixteen, eighteen years old going through that; realizing that the job is to have a persona.

It's a bigger dream than I dared to dream for myself.

It was like drinking the strongest coffee I've ever tasted to see this movie, ... So much time has passed since then, and I stepped back into that time.

Shawn was a great musician but a poor businessman,

I judged my mother much too harshly for her dating life. Being her only child, I wanted her completely to myself.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

He's much more of a veteran than I am in the genre, ... He encouraged me to trust my instincts and tried to pull me into more improvisation. I'll get there, but this is not that film for me. It was more of what Gary had in mind; he heard the way the characters speak in his ear when he wrote the words.

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