Quotes from Diane Lane

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.'

Some days I want to get the boob job, some days I want to get the eye lift. Then other days, I'm like, 'Absolutely not! Have some integrity!'... But it's all about what makes you happy.

You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

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.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film.

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 want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

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.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

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.

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

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.

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

I'm done saying 'I'm sorry I wasn't who you needed or wanted me to be' to everybody in my life.

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.

Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving.

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.

It's wonderful being the underdog.