Diane Lane Quotes

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.

Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

I have an incredible relationship with dogs. I'm kind of a dog-whisperer.

Oh, those golden-yellow eyes of the wolf! You can feel yourself being pulled in. I knew I had been accepted - and that I had spoken to another species.

When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're a little girl at school, you want to be like the other little girls.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'

In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read.

I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.

I spent quite a lot of time in front of the bathroom mirror. Nearby, there was a stack of books. My favorites were 'The Death of Manolete' and the cartoons of Charles Addams. I would pretend to be Morticia Addams. I was drawn to her. I used to pull my eyes back and see how I'd look with slanted eyelids.

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

I vividly remember watching women in films when I was nine or 10, picturing them being what I'd be like as an adult. I had these real female crushes on certain actresses. And I'd watch them, thinking, 'One day, I'll be that. One day I'll be a woman.'

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

My real name is Dijon. My mom named me Dijon, so everybody used to call me Mustard.

I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.