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Diane Lane [1965-0] American

Rank: 102
Actress

Diane Lane is an American actress. Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Sir Laurence Olivier.

Age, Attitude, Dad, Good, Smile, Time

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It's always refreshing to step into another time.	Time	101
I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.	Good	102
I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.	Smile	103
For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.		104
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.	Age	105
I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.		106
But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.		107
I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.		108
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.		109
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.		110
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!		111
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.		112
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.	Dad	113
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.		114
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.	Attitude	115
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.		116
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.		117
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.		118
So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.		119
To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.		120
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.		121
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.		122
I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.		123
I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.		124
Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.		125
When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.		126
Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.		201
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.		202
I like someone who's suffered from both sides.		203
I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.		204
You can't get work without working.		205
I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!		206
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.		207
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.		208
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.		209
My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.		210
The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.		211
More yoga in the world is what we need.		212
Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.		213
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.		214
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.		215
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.		216
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.		217
I try not to be overly analytical.		218
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.		219
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.		220
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.		221
Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.		222
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.		223

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