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" I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important. "
Diane Lane
Important
Enough
Attention
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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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" It's always refreshing to step into another time. "
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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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" I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel. "
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" All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting! "
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" Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth. "
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" I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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Time
" 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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Prove
Something
Always
" 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. "
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Writing
Women
Great
" Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving. "
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Fight
Think
Moving
" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "
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Broke
" The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that. "
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Hot
Today
Potential
" I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.' "
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Hard Time
Had
Calling
" 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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People
Feel
Like
" 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. "
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You
Think
Soul
" It's wonderful being the underdog. "
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Underdog
Being
Wonderful
" My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know? "
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Trying
Aging
Know
" I like someone who's suffered from both sides. "
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Like
Someone
Both
" The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition. "
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Fat
Great
Improvement
" Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong. "
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Saying
Sorry
You
" You can't get work without working. "
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Work
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" Independent films have a very different cachet than success films. "
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Than
" Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. "
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Sometimes
" 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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" 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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Cat
You