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" 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. "

Diane Lane

Love

Moment

World

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" What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it! "

" Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective? "

" 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. "

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

Diane Lane

People

Feel

" A lot can change in the editing room. "

" 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. "

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

" I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman. "

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Watching

Superman

" I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me. "

" Independent films have a very different cachet than success films. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all. "

" I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "

" 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. "

" But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy. "

" Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done. "

" 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. "