Diane Lane

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films. ”

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. ”

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career. ”

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel. ”

I like someone who's suffered from both sides. ”

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true. ”

When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal. ”

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe. ”

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. ”