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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.

Diane Lane

Relationship Change Yourself

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I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

Smile Tom Think

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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?

Time Nature You

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It's always refreshing to step into another time.

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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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You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

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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.

Morning Men Great

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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.

Relationship Change Yourself

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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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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.

Happiness Your You

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It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film.

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A lot can change in the editing room.

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I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

Time Great Communication

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I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male.

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Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.

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I was really fortunate that I was not in 'successful movies' when I was younger, because whatever's given, there's an undertow that wants to take it away.

Success Movies Younger

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Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

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

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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.

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Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Success Very Than

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

Work Work Ethic Very

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons.

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

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

It's so great to watch sports live. I think everyone should watch it up close once, if possible. I would like to see every sport live at least once to fully appreciate what's happening on the court or on the field or on the ice or whatever the playing surface may be.

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.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

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.'

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.

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

I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress.

I just enjoy going to the games, but if you're watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be rooting for the Lakers. You're on the winning end of things most of the time.

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 don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

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.

Some days I want to get the boob job, some days I want to get the eye lift. Then other days, I'm like, 'Absolutely not! Have some integrity!'... But it's all about what makes you happy.

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

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.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

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

I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K.

What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it!

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.

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

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

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.

Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.