Diane Lane Quotes

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

I wear my age with pride.

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older.

My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

Everybody is so anti-aging, but I don't want to look younger than I am. Our face is a map of our life; the more that's there, the better.

I'm over trying to be younger or look younger.

I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I am old, but I feel very beautiful.

Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

Starting in my 20s, I couldn't wait to look like Anna Magnani or Isabelle Huppert, all these great European actresses - Charlotte Rampling - the cheekbones and the heavy lidded eyes and the dark circles under the eyes, you know. So around 42/44, I started getting a little character on my face, and I was so glad.

I feel as though going into middle age really suits me.