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Born
January 5, 1946 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth name
Diane Hall

QUOTES:

Of course I recognized myself in the roles [Woody Allen] wrote. I mean, in Annie Hall (1977) particularly. I was this sort of novice who had lots of feelings but didn’t know how to express herself, and I see that in Annie. I think Woody used a kind of essential quality that he found in me at that time, and I’m glad he did because it worked really well in the movie.

I build a wall around myself. I’m hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I think about dying every single day. I’ve lost lots of friends, and they die in the most bizarre ways. It’s like, “That can’t possibly be! How could that have happened?” And all I can think is, “That could have been me.”

It’s kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well. Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren’t looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.