124 Diane Lane Quotes You Need In Your Life
Diane Lane believes challenges are actually blessings. Beginning her career at the age of six at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York, she traveled a long distance to reach where she is today. However, the success has not come without cost; as she says, “there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids”. Today a more mature and an observant person, she takes lessons from the nature and believes that there is nothing like a good laugh. In her interviews, she has talked not only about the entertainment industries, but also on journalism, her growing up days as well as on hordes of other subjects. Let us take a look at some of her quotes on nature, change, love, joy, life, age etc.
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.
That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.
You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.
I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.
To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.
You can't get work without working.
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.
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!
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.
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.
Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.
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.
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.
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.
I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.
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.
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.
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.
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.
My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.
I know I've made the right decision when I've followed my heart.
It's always refreshing to step into another time.
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.
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.
Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.
You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.
I just enjoy going to the games, but if you're watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be rooting for the Lakers. You're on the winning end of things most of the time.
