Diane Lane

When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you…

— Diane Lane

What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art,…

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So,…

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship…

— Diane Lane

Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware…

— Diane Lane

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to…

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

A lot can change in the editing room.

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of…

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was…

— Diane Lane

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a…

— Diane Lane

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…

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I…

— Diane Lane