Quotes from Diane Lane

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons.

Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.

In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record.

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.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

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

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.

A lot can change in the editing room.

All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting!

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.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

It's so great to watch sports live. I think everyone should watch it up close once, if possible. I would like to see every sport live at least once to fully appreciate what's happening on the court or on the field or on the ice or whatever the playing surface may be.

I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

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

I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion.

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.

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.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

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.

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.