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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 think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. "

Diane Lane

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Soul

" It's always refreshing to step into another time. "

" 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. "

" A lot can change in the editing room. "

" 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. "

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

" I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world. "

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

" The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that. "

" I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. "

Diane Lane

People

Father

" I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. "

" 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 think it's lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That's the great harvest, the great writing available to women. Whether that makes it to the screen, that's a whole other conversation. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control. "

" 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. "

" We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us. "

" Some people fascinate me. They really worship at the altar of their careers, you know? And it's terrifying. It's sort of like setting a table and waiting for someone to come along and whoosh - push all the plates onto the floor. "

" 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 via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication. "

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

" It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film. "

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

Diane Lane

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Hurt

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger. "

" 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. "