Diane Lane believes challenges are actually blessings. Beginning her career at the age of six at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York, she traveled a long distance to reach where she is today. However, the success has not come without cost; as she says, “there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids”. Today a more mature and an observant person, she takes lessons from the nature and believes that there is nothing like a good laugh. In her interviews, she has talked not only about the entertainment industries, but also on journalism, her growing up days as well as on hordes of other subjects. Let us take a look at some of her quotes on nature, change, love, joy, life, age etc.
I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.
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
I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.
Diane Lane
I think certainly directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.
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
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.
Diane Lane
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.
Diane Lane
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
My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.
Diane Lane
I know I've made the right decision when I've followed my heart.
I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.
Diane Lane
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.
Diane Lane
Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.
Diane Lane
You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.
Diane Lane
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.
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.
Diane Lane
I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was.
Diane Lane
I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'
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.'
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.
Diane Lane
Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?
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
I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years.
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
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
Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.
Diane Lane
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
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 maybe five different shows, and that's about it.
Diane Lane
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
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
I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.
Diane Lane
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?
I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman.
Diane Lane
I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.
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.
