Diane Lane Quotes
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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.
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When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.
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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.
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I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
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I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.
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I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
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I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
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It's always refreshing to step into another time.
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Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.
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Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.
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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.
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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.
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I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. 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. Sometimes there's this real naïveté that people possess, where they want you to infuse a scene with a certain quality, and it's like an apology. "I read the script, didn't you? What's the agenda here?"
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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.
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You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.
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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.
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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.
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My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.
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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.
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I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.
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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.
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But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.
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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.
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That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.
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I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!
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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. I don't know how people raise children and direct films. I'm sorry, I don't know, how can you be good at both?
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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. I think a lot of women are contained within the parentheses of shoulds and role-play. It's all about entitlement and history. It's all about upper-body strength - and exacting your will.
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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.
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I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.
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When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
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