Diane Lane quotes - page 2

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents! (Diane Lane)

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

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

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Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

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

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

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

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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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.

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

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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 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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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.

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Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.

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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.

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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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Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting. (Diane Lane)

You can't get work without working.

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It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

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I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.

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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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Diane Lane

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Occupation: American Actress
Born: January 22, 1965
Quotes count: 52

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