Top 77 Diane Lane Quotes

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

What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It’s a lovely dream, but it’s the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You’d need a lot more than an interview to go into it!

I’m done saying ‘I’m sorry I wasn’t who you needed or wanted me to be’ to everybody in my life.

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.

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.

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’ve got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn’t trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on ‘Time’ magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, ‘Wow.’ And it made ‘Time’ magazine come down to life-size scale.

I’ve always been a daddy’s girl, and that’s served me well in life; most of my directors have been male.

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.

It’s all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It’s funny.

I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn’t working, I was.

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?

When you’re a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective?

Love is saying you’re sorry. It’s the opposite of those cherub posters that say, ‘Love is never having to say you’re sorry.’ Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven’t met that quota, something’s wrong.

I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman.

Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.

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 had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver ‘Larry.’

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

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

I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I’ve done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don’t know what’s up or down, you’re trying to figure it out. You’re trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it’s just… it’s humbled me.

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

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

Pete Docter’s a genius isn’t he?

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

Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I’m vulnerable to comparisons.

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

It’s so great to watch sports live. I think everyone should watch it up close once, if possible. I would like to see every sport live at least once to fully appreciate what’s happening on the court or on the field or on the ice or whatever the playing surface may be.

I was really fortunate that I was not in ‘successful movies’ when I was younger, because whatever’s given, there’s an undertow that wants to take it away.

All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting!

I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

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

I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn’t going to let it terrify me.

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

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.

Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.

Some days I want to get the boob job, some days I want to get the eye lift. Then other days, I’m like, ‘Absolutely not! Have some integrity!’… But it’s all about what makes you happy.

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.

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.

It’s wonderful being the underdog.

Oh, I’m just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I’m not saying I never will. But it’s like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird?

My relationship with aging is cozy. I’m not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

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 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.

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.

I’m not actively avoiding television. I just haven’t found the right fit yet, as it were. And that’s O.K.

There’s a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, ‘If you’re thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn’t.’

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

I like someone who’s suffered from both sides.

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.

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

I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice.

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.

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.

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 just enjoy going to the games, but if you’re watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be rooting for the Lakers. You’re on the winning end of things most of the time.

It’s always refreshing to step into another time.

Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

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.

In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis’s record.

You can’t get work without working.

The industry’s memory is quite short, it’s true.

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.

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

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