Diane Lane

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

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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! ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”