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" Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it. "
Diane Lane
Like
School
Admit
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" Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth. "
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" I like someone who's suffered from both sides. "
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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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" 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 really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship. "
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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! "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Independent films have a very different cachet than success films. "
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" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "
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" I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important. "
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" For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract. "
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Print
Me
" Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life. "
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Short
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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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" I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress. "
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Even
Hell
" Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. "
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Think
Sometimes
" 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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" Some days I want to get the boob job, some days I want to get the eye lift. Then other days, I'm like, 'Absolutely not! Have some integrity!'... But it's all about what makes you happy. "
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You
Happy
Integrity
" 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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Film
Filmmaking
Think
" 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
" 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
" 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
" All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know? "
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Time
Wind
Know
" 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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Younger
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" Pete Docter's a genius isn't he? "
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He
" I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in. "
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Myself
Live
" 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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