Diane Lane Quotes

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

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

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.

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

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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 have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

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

You can't get work without working.

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

I try not to be overly analytical.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

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.

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.

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

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.