Diane Lane Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

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

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

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

You can't get work without working.

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 that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

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

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.

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.