You can meet people who are really beautiful. Then, when you see them angry for the first time, all of a sudden they're not beautiful anymore. They didn't just step into the other room and have plastic surgery; they're still the same physically. It's just that something inside of them has changed. They're no longer attractive.

I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.

So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

The best part is not the biggest, it's the one that's most memorable.

If people are attracted to me, I like to think it's because I'm an interesting person, fairly smart, well-rounded, with a good sense of humor. I would like to think that's what I am. I would like to think people see it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.