Diane Lane

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents! ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy. ”

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. ”

Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. ”

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. ”

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.' ”