Top 50 Diane Lane Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.”

— Diane Lane

2. “I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don’t have it, you can’t manufacture it.”

— Diane Lane

3. “I try not to be overly analytical.”

— Diane Lane

4. “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.”

— Diane Lane

5. “I know I’ve made the right decision when I’ve followed my heart.”

— Diane Lane

6. “It’s always refreshing to step into another time.”

— Diane Lane

7. “I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.”

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

9. “You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.”

— Diane Lane

10. “That’s why they call it work, because it’s not what you’d prefer to do with your free time.”

— Diane Lane

11. “You’ll never have any mental muscle if you don’t have any heavy stuff to pick up.”

— Diane Lane

12. “There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time – that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy.”

— Diane Lane

13. “More yoga in the world is what we need.”

— Diane Lane

14. “Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There’s always something going into the mouth.”

— Diane Lane

15. “You can’t get work without working.”

— Diane Lane

16. “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.”

— Diane Lane

17. “I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.”

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

19. “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.”

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

21. “I don’t lie. I would never stuff my bra because it’s going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don’t like that padding. I try to be completely – if not brutally – honest.”

— Diane Lane

22. “I’m not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.”

— Diane Lane

23. “I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.”

— Diane Lane

24. “It’s nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.”

— Diane Lane

25. “To me, there’s no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.”

— Diane Lane

26. “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.”

— Diane Lane

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27. “When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York’s La MaMa theater company – without my parents!”

— Diane Lane

28. “When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.”

— Diane Lane

29. “I wish I could always look like I’ve just finished a really good laugh.”

— Diane Lane

30. “I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.”

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

32. “If people knew what made hits they’d make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one’s career isn’t something I can even pretend to have.”

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

34. “I’ve found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.”

— Diane Lane

35. “I’m fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it’s about immediate delivery. There’s less risk and less art.”

— Diane Lane

36. “When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can’t take away from me because I’m not popular or beautiful enough.”

— Diane Lane

37. “You see the movie with the music and the editing and all the parts that you weren’t there for when it was being filmed, and you really appreciate all the names that are scrolling by. You realize that you accomplished so much.”

— Diane Lane

38. “I don’t really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.”

— Diane Lane

39. “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.”

— Diane Lane

40. “My parents treated my like I had a brain – which, in turn, caused me to have one.”

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

42. “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.”

— Diane Lane

43. “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.”

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane

47. “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.”

— Diane Lane

48. “I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.”

— Diane Lane

49. “You really can’t take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.”

— Diane Lane

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

— Diane Lane