Diane Lane Quotes

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!

Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

I have found that what drives me is the desire to prove, to myself and to my peers, that I can do what I set out to do and build something that matters.

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

There's just so many things I wanna do. At the end of the day, I wanna be happy.

I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

I had a dream, and I'm living it.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.

I've had to prove myself. But I'm driven, and I would love to make my own mark on the world.