Top 128 Quotes & Sayings by Diane Lane
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Last updated on November 3, 2024.
Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.
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.
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.
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?
Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
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.
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 try not to be overly analytical.
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?
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 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.
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.
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.
I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.
You can't get work without working.
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.
The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
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 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.
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.
So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.
A lot can change in the editing room.
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.
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.
I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male.
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 wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.
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.
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?'
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.
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!
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.
For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.
Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.
I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.
It's always refreshing to step into another time.
You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.
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 like someone who's suffered from both sides.
More yoga in the world is what we need.
My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.
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.
I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.
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.
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