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" The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that. "
Diane Lane
Hot
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Potential
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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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" Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective? "
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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 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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Never
Too Late
" I try not to be overly analytical. "
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Overly
Try
Analytical
" You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life. "
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Flexible
Age
Life
" I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.' "
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Had
Calling
" 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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Children
Me
" 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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Confidence
God
Thank God
" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "
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Think
I Think
Broke
" I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was. "
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Thought
People
Blessed
" Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all. "
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Mothers
Jews
Guilt
" A lot can change in the editing room. "
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Lot
Room
Editing Room
" I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes. "
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Parent
Thousand
Bad
" I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress. "
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Actress
Even
Hell
" 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. "
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Your
Control
Movies
" 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. "
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Child
Stay Focused
Myself
" 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'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years. "
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Many
Years
Commitment
" All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting! "
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Talk
Watching
About
" It's always refreshing to step into another time. "
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Refreshing
Step
Time
" 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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Back
Say
Me
" 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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Just
Avoiding
Found
" 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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Want
Nothing
Down
" 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. "
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Love
Moment
World
" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "
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Wish
Always
Laugh
" 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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Beauty
Youth
Power
" I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship. "
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Comfortable
Kind
Relationship
" 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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Know
Week