Diane Lane
For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.
I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.
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 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.
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.
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.
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.
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.
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.
But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.
My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years.
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.
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!
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.
Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.
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.
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.
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.'
I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'
You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.
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 was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was.
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 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.