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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. "
Diane Lane
Late
Never
Too Late
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" It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film. "
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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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" I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale. "
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" To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me. "
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" More yoga in the world is what we need. "
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" It's always refreshing to step into another time. "
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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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" 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 was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence. "
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" 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. "
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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'm done saying 'I'm sorry I wasn't who you needed or wanted me to be' to everybody in my life. "
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" 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. "
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" Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons. "
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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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" 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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" The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?' "
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" 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. "
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Black
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" I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was. "
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" Pete Docter's a genius isn't he? "
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" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "
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" I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years. "
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" 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. "
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" When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy. "
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" I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K. "
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" I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male. "
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" The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that. "
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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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" 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. "
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