Diane Lane

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

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

I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.

I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me.

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

Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It's wonderful being the underdog.

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?'

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.

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

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.

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.

A lot can change in the editing room.

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

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.

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

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'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 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.

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.

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 was really fortunate that I was not in 'successful movies' when I was younger, because whatever's given, there's an undertow that wants to take it away.

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.

I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was.

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?

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

I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'

Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.

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.

I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K.

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

I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

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

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!

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

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.'

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.