Quotes from Diane Lane

You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control.

I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

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.

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.

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

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

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.

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

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

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.

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

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

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

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.

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye.

Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective?

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?'

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

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 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.

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.

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.