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" 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. "

Diane Lane

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have! "

Diane Lane

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" Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to. "

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

" Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years. "

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

" 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?' "

Diane Lane

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

" Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. "

" 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. "

" All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting! "

" 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 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. "

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

Diane Lane

People

Father

" I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important. "

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

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