Diane Lane Quotes

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow - then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

I think once I kind of got to a place of self-acceptance, looking past all the insecurities that I have, I've really grown so much as a person.

To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.

I think confidence comes with age and experience, honestly.

Young women look at me and think, 'She's really confident. She has always had it figured out,' but actually, I really, really haven't. That has come over time as I became a young woman.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.