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Diane Lane
American
Actress
About the author
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Want
#Nothing
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.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Daughter
#School
The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Memory
So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Now
#Trying
More yoga in the world is what we need.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#World
#Yoga
It's always refreshing to step into another time.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Time
Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Success
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#World
#Desire
When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Feeling
#Old
#Press
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#People
#Work
#Father
#Work ethic
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Day
I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Smiles
I like someone who's suffered from both sides.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Attention
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Art
#Hollywood
#Today
#Risk
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Theater
#Company
Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.
Diane Lane,
American
Actress
#Day
#Man
#Americans