QUOTES by Diane Lane
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"When I was growing up in New York City, my "father "was a taxi driver for a time."
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"I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids."
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"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."
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"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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"I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world."
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"Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all."
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"Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in."
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"If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have."
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"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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"Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting."
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"I'm done saying 'I'm sorry I wasn't who you needed or wanted me to be' to everybody in my life."
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"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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"The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that."
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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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"It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film."
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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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"All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting!"
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"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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"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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"Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons."
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"The weird thing about film, which I don't really care for, is that I'm always surprised when I see the film. One way or another, I'm always surprised."
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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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"I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years."
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"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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"It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny."
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"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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"There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'"
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"I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male."
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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 was really fortunate that I was not in 'successful movies' when I was younger, because whatever's given, there's an undertow that wants to take it away."
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"You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up."
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