Diane Lane Quotes

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors.

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

In this industry, very few actors can control their career.

It's funny because Hollywood is such a small place that everyone really is less than 6 degrees of separation.

I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with.

I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came down and said, 'Come live with the Munchkins; you are now one of us.' I didn't understand the concept of it as a career. I thought I would save up enough money to go to college.

I thought actors were born in Hollywood. I didn't know how to go about it.

The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

When I started out in this business, dance was not at the height it is now. It was almost like, you're either a dancer or an actress.

I think it just seems like something that somebody else does, like they raise actors somewhere in Ohio, and once in a while, people go and pick their actors and move to Hollywood. It seemed like such a distant idea. But then, as I started growing up, I'm like, 'Oh, this is an occupation.'

I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

A film career is a natural progression for any model and i'm sure this trend will continue.

The entertainment industry is so vast; that's why I got into it the first place.

I am probably the best example of an actor who has built his career on flops.

There's a stigma attached to being an actor. People from 'Big Brother' call themselves actors. There's so much crap. It's not about appreciating that we're here to service the public, that we're storytellers. It doesn't sit comfortably with me.