Top 35 Diane Quotes

Diane Keaton was a big role model for me.

If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you’re part of something great.

My first album after ‘American Idol‘ I did with Desmond – we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden – we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

In college, I interned for Diane Sawyer my sophomore summer.

I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel and Paul Hunter, just from the video side. I grew up also watching a lot of independent films and foreign films.

Radio was my friend after ‘Jack & Diane’ and ‘Hurts So Good.’

Diane Kruger has a really chilled-out sense of style. It has a Parisian feel and isn’t overly girly.

If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I’d be a happy woman.

I’m so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.

My personal style icons are Diane Von Furstenberg and Linda Fargo. For strength and their own style, Christine Lagarde and Angela Merkel.

I don’t need to own one but I like to look at Diane Arbus’s pictures and anything by Jackson Pollock.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it’s just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

I love Diane Keaton’s style in ‘Annie Hall,’ but I like to think my own style is like a cross between ‘Annie Hall’ and Prince.

While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called ‘The Natural History of the Senses’ – an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm.

I took a clown class at NYU – that’s where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.

All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.

I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it’s amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.

There is a movie called ‘My Dog Skip,’ starring my ‘Outsiders‘ costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child, particularly one about to leave home, watching this film is to be emotionally waterboarded.

It was actually the movie ‘Rushmore’ that made me first realize that I could try writing, but ‘Cheers’ is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.

Well, my mom is single and we’ve both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane’s.

I’m fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

Diane von Furstenberg is an extraordinary woman. She’s modern. She’s a mother, a grandmother, a leader.

Women I admired growing up – Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep – were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny – much, much too skinny. You can’t Pilates to that.

I was so honored when Diane Sawyer named me ‘Person of the Week,’ and like I told her, ‘Diane, I love my daughter.’ I cried when I found out when she told me she was gay when she was 17 because of the judgment.

Did any agents ever put Diane Ladd up for some of the great parts, even though she always got great reviews? No! But do they put up the girlfriend of the studio executive who’s gonna do them a favor later? You betcha.

Oh, Diane Nash deserves her own film. Diane Nash is a freedom fighter who is still alive and kicking. She was one of the leaders of the desegregation of Nashville, basically. She was a student at Fisk University who was one of the founding members of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

I love what Diane Kruger wears.

Diane Kruger looks pretty awesome on the red carpet and is effortlessly cool. I’m also a fan of Bella Hadid and Hailey Baldwin.

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.

A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white – people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing.

Take ‘Jack and Diane.’ I was so disgusted with people thinking the line ‘Hold on to sixteen as long as you can’ meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.

I still do all my developing and printing in my darkroom. Being in New York, you get tremendous exposure to great arts. In my student years, I saw exhibitions of August Sander and Diane Arbus. I still go back to their pictures. I don’t really go for contemporary photo shows.

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie ‘Diane’ in the early Fifties.

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don’t have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that’s terrific.