Quotes from Diane Lane

Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

Oh, I'm just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I'm not saying I never will. But it's like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird?

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress.

When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

I think it's lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That's the great harvest, the great writing available to women. Whether that makes it to the screen, that's a whole other conversation.

The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.

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

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

Some people fascinate me. They really worship at the altar of their careers, you know? And it's terrifying. It's sort of like setting a table and waiting for someone to come along and whoosh - push all the plates onto the floor.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into 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.

I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale.

But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.