Quotes from Diane Lane movies and TV shows

Martha Kent: Be their hero, Clark. Be their angel, be their monument, be anything they need you to be... Or be none of it. You don't owe this world a thing. You never did.

Elizabeth Wilkes: So you work for Smith and Stevens Securities?
Conor O'Neill: Yes.
Elizabeth Wilkes: What deal did you blow?
Conor O'Neill: What?
Elizabeth Wilkes: Well, I'm sure you're not coaching this team by choice.

Eddie Mannix: People are waitin'. You comin' down?
Toni Mannix: Help with the dress.
Eddie Mannix: OK. I'm gonna let some light in. I wanna tell you somethin'. You know I'll always take care of you. Whatever's happened. Whatever might've been done, it doesn't matter. Nobody's gonna hurt you. Nobody gets to ask. I won't allow it. You're safe with me. With your husband. Let me see what you look like. You're beautiful. You always will be.

Lauren King: So what does your father do?
Daniel Michon: He drives.
Lauren King: A truck?
Daniel Michon: No... a taxi.
Lauren King: You shouldn't be embarrassed, it's honest work.
Daniel Michon: Not the way he does it.

Lauren King: That's why I wanted to go to Venice. Not just to run away. But so we could kiss under the Bridge of Sighs - at sunset - when the bells tolled. The way the Brownings did. And then we could love each other for ever.

Lauren King: Heidegger isn't all that hard. I mean, his stuff is mostly etymological. You know, like, why is there something rather than nothing at all.

Kay King: What is going on! Jesus Christ, Richard, get in here! They've been having an orgy.
Richard King: Don't be ridiculous! What were you doing?
Lauren King: We had some champagne and I opened my gifts. That's all.

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend: Are you in love?
Lauren King: You don't fall in love with a boy you just met.
Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend: Are you?
Lauren King: Yeah.

Agent Nick Spikings: Do you what it means to be a team player?
Nina Chance: Sharp-shooting isn't a team sport.

Detective Harlan Regis: This is Carla's tape from her answering machine.
Nina Chance: Yeah.
Detective Harlan Regis: Well, how'd you get it?
Nina Chance: I stole it.

Bob: You sure you don't want to come in, we just opened a bottle of wine.
Sarah: Oh I think I'd rather die, but thank you.

Sarah: I want to be in love. I want to wake up next to someone and see them smile, do the whole Sunday breakfast thing, go out and get the paper, stay in bed together all day.

Sarah: They had to cut me out of the snow with scissors.

Jack Morris: You know I.C.? Colored fellow at the service station?
Ellen Morris: Sure.
Jack Morris: His son came back from Europe today.
Ellen Morris: Wonderful.
Jack Morris: In a box.

Dr. Paul Flanner: What keeps you safe?
Adrienne Willis: Well, you fall in love with someone, you know... and you make a family... and you become what you think you're supposed to be. And you change and you give up certain things. Then they look at what you've got left and you wish you... I don't know, you just think maybe you shouldn't have.
Dr. Paul Flanner: Don't.
Dr. Paul Flanner: Just don't do it anymore.
Adrienne Willis: ...Huh.

Adrienne Willis: When Jack left me, it wasn't just our marriage ending. It was the loss of all the hopes that I'd had for the future. I tried to move on, but the world didn't seem that interested in me anymore. Then you came along, and helped me believe in myself again.

Adrienne Willis: I know you've only ever known your father and me. And I love Jack, because he is your father. But there's another kind of love, Amanda. One that gives you the courage to be better than you are, not less than you are. One that makes you feel that anything is possible. I want you to know that you could have that. I want you to hold out for it.

Dr. Paul Flanner: We all make choices, Adrienne. You chose that life, you chose that man. Do you even remember who you really are anymore?
Adrienne Willis: Just stop it.

Rusty James: Hey, my brother's the coolest.
Patty: Well, you're better than cool. You're warm.

Penny Chenery: My father's legacy is not his money. My father's legacy is the will to win.