Diane Lane famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Stuff #Heavy

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
-- Diane Lane

#Smile #Thinking #Looks

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Hands #Letters #Mail

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.
-- Diane Lane

#Motivation #Blessing #Challenges

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Thinking #Soul #Secret

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

#Horse #Expression #Joy

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

#Laughing #Want #Down And

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Fun #Attitude #Thinking

It's always refreshing to step into another time.
-- Diane Lane

#Steps #Refreshing

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

#Men #Mouths #Way

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.
-- Diane Lane

#Important #Attention #Enough

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

#Long #Kind #Term

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Daughter #Mother #School

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Winning #Race #Weather

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

#New York #Growing Up #Father

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Night #Hair #Jeans

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

#People #Care #Rewards

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

#Girl #Teenage #Thinking

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

#Children #Shoes #Roles

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Beautiful #School #Enough

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

#Mistake #Parent #Partners

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

#Laughing #Wish #Looks

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Careers #People #Illusion

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

#Thinking #Fake #Would Be

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Children #Interesting #Acting

You can't get work without working.
-- Diane Lane

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Dog #Cat #Apples

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Reality #Different #Television

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Believe #Example #Tongue

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Gun #Directors #Negative

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Done #Film #Infinite

I try not to be overly analytical.
-- Diane Lane

#Trying

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

#Kids #Missing

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

#East #World #Journalism

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
-- Diane Lane

#Independent #Different #Film

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Nice #Teaching #Home

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

#New York #Parent #Mama

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Cheating #Would Be #Generations

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

#Careers #Going Away #Hardest

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Horse #Drawing #Age

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

#Art #Risk #Hollywood

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

#Desire #World #Prove

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Mother #Thinking #Years

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

#Shoes #Trying #Boots

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

#Inspirational #Parent #Brain

More yoga in the world is what we need.
-- Diane Lane

#Yoga #Needs #World

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

#Feelings #Young #Copies

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.
-- Diane Lane

#Film #Contracts #Fine

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

#Memories #Thinking #People

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

#Strong #Father #People