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On the difficulty of getting film projects after a certain age as a woman:
I'm delighted to have crossed the threshold into another stage of life where I can say it is a myth and I don't believe it. Because I think, fortunately for a large chunk of the population, we can be represented.
About on-line dating:
Look, it's so interesting, because being a mom of a daughter - forget about it. I'm so hyper mama-bear protective: "In no way is it ever all right to meet anybody you've [only] ever met on-line! Period! End of story. Close chapter, end the book." But in my prickly, paranoid way, I'd say, "Well don't they kind of pre-screen people at these agencies?" So I like the fact these services exist, and I think if you're meeting someone randomly outside the protection of the umbrella, you know you can't say you weren't warned.
Comparing herself to her mother, a former "Playboy" magazine centerfold:
Mom was better endowed.
Talking about her Oscar nomination her father Burt Lane, who managed her early career, passed away in February 2002:
The only phone call I really yearn to make is one I can't, which is to say, "Guess what, Dad?"
Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.
Even the short men I know appreciate a woman in heels.
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.
I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.
I judged my mother much too harshly for her dating life. Being her only child, I wanted her completely to myself.
I like someone who's suffered from both sides.
I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
I waited a decade to get here, so I better enjoy it! I love it. I'm a late bloomer, and it's all good.
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
I would like to find a way where I'm portraying somebody who - the vulnerability of a character is very important but at the same time, where you see the struggle. I enjoy watching women struggle because the vulnerability issues that women are expected to just wear on their sleeve, it's not how women are.
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
It's always refreshing to step into another time. I've often loved westerns because it was so interesting to experience the oppression of being in the saddle and being in a corset, just to appreciate being able to complain about being in high heels and tight jeans when you're done with your day's work.
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
More yoga in the world is what we need.
So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.
The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.
There's a persona to being an actress.... That could put anyone into the shrink's office. Especially if you're fifteen, sixteen, eighteen years old going through that; realizing that the job is to have a persona.
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.
When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
You don't realize how many flaws you have until you've lived with someone. It's humbling just to stick it out. Love is saying you're sorry. It's the exact opposite of those cherub posters that say "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.
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