Latest Diane Lane Quotes from Interviews

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• A grandparent will tell you, "Have fun!" and a parent will tell you, "Be safe, do a good job, make me proud." You know what I mean? I try to grandparent myself now, because it's important to have fun, it's important to impart the fun in things to other people.

  Diane Lane

  Fun, Mean, Grandparent

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. 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. Sometimes there's this real naïveté that people possess, where they want you to infuse a scene with a certain quality, and it's like an apology. "I read the script, didn't you? What's the agenda here?"

  Diane Lane

  Dog, Real, Cat

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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. I don't know how people raise children and direct films. I'm sorry, I don't know, how can you be good at both?

  Diane Lane

  Mother, Sorry, Children

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I think a lot of the time, the studio system is so compelled to kowtow to its fear that women are not going to be found sympathetic. It just sort of euthanizes any hope of more diverse examples of the emotional realities of people. Representing my gender, I think, "Well, I have those emotions, why don't those ever get brought to the screen so I can feel recognized?"

  Diane Lane

  Reality, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

• One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my life [Laughs], the most rewarding and deepening, so I have a delight in portraying mothers.

  Diane Lane

  Mother, Laughing, Being The Best

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Diane Lane

  Communication, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• As an actor, you hope to obtain this mind meld and sometimes I feel like I'm chasing a horse holding on to its tail and getting dragged, and other times I feel much more velcroed into the saddle. And I'm not the knower of which is better or best as a process, it's just as random as the weather in terms of what my subjective experience is.

  Diane Lane

  Horse, Mind, Holding On

  Source: collider.com

• I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

  Diane Lane

  First Love, Progress, Painting

  Source: collider.com

• What happens between action and cut for me is a blur, I go almost into a whiteout, and then I see the film and I'm like, "Oh that's what I did? Cool!"

  Diane Lane

  Cutting, Action, Film

  Source: collider.com

• 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 think a lot of women are contained within the parentheses of shoulds and role-play. It's all about entitlement and history. It's all about upper-body strength - and exacting your will.

  Diane Lane

  Black And White, Thinking, Play

  Source: deadline.com

• That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

  Diane Lane

  Free Time

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

• I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

  Diane Lane

  Powerful, Fighting, Two

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

• I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

  Diane Lane

  Lying, Trying, Stuff

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

• I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

  Diane Lane

  Romantic Love, Goal, Sometimes

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

• There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy.

  Diane Lane

  Responsibility, Joy, Want

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

• You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

  Diane Lane

  Firsts, First Time, Virgins

  "Emmys: Why Diane Lane Feels 'Remorse and Guilt' About 'Cinema Verite'". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2011.

• You see the movie with the music and the editing and all the parts that you weren't there for when it was being filmed, and you really appreciate all the names that are scrolling by. You realize that you accomplished so much.

  Diane Lane

  Editing, Names, Appreciate

  "Diane Lane, John Malkovich and Randall Wallace Interview SECRETARIAT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 1, 2010.