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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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'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.

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.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

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.

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.

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 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?"

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.

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

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.

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.

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.