Success Quote by Rob Lowe

Nostalgia is doing double duty here: it’s a fond backstage anecdote and a quiet status report on a particular kind of star power. When Rob Lowe says “we always reminisce,” he’s not just recalling a moment; he’s locating himself inside a shared mythology of youth, fame, and a closed ecosystem where everyone is watching everyone else. The “we” matters. It signals an in-group of peers who survived an era and now trade stories as a kind of proof of membership.

The line’s real engine is the contrast between effort and futility: “everyone tried” versus “very little success.” That gap flatters Diane Lane without needing to gush. She becomes the gravitational center, not because she performs, but because she refuses to perform on cue. Attention is treated like currency in a scene that runs on charisma and access, and Lane’s scarcity makes her richer. Lowe’s phrasing keeps it lightly comic, even self-deprecating; it lets the guys be a little ridiculous without sounding bitter.

There’s also a generational snapshot embedded in it: a time when young actors were packaged as heartthrobs, when pursuit was social sport, and when the women at the center had to manage being a prize in a room full of aspiring winners. The anecdote plays as charming, but the subtext is about boundaries. Lane’s “little success” isn’t a failure of the pursuers; it’s the point. It reframes desirability as control, not availability, and that’s why the story still has bite decades later.