Diane Lane

“My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?”

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

“I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.”

“I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.”

“I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!”

“I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'”

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

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

“I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was.”

“To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.”

“Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?”

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

“Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.”

“I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger.”

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

“The weird thing about film, which I don't really care for, is that I'm always surprised when I see the film. One way or another, I'm always surprised.”

“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.”

“I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale.”

“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.'”