Diane Lane

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

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I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

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I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

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I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

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I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.

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It's always refreshing to step into another time.

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When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

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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.

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The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition.

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Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

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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.

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So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

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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.

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I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

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I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication.

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You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control.

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All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

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More yoga in the world is what we need.

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Quotes by Diane Lane