Diane Lane

Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.

— Diane Lane

Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

— Diane Lane

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

— Diane Lane

I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'

— Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

— Diane Lane

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was…

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

I was really fortunate that I was not in 'successful movies' when I was younger, because whatever's given, there's an undertow that…

— Diane Lane

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take…

— Diane Lane

It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how…

— Diane Lane

There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy…

— 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

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

One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my…

— Diane Lane

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave…

— Diane Lane

A grandparent will tell you, "Have fun!" and a parent will tell you, "Be safe, do a good job, make me proud."…

— Diane Lane

I think a lot of the time, the studio system is so compelled to kowtow to its fear that women are not…

— Diane Lane

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But…

— Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins…

— Diane Lane

I think it's lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That's…

— Diane Lane

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But…

— 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

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

— Diane Lane

You can't get work without working.

— Diane Lane

More yoga in the world is what we need.

— Diane Lane

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

— Diane Lane

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

— Diane Lane

It's wonderful being the underdog.

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

A lot can change in the editing room.

— Diane Lane

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

— Diane Lane