Rob Lowe Quotes

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Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the

Can we understandjust for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.
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I’m not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.
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I’ve always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern – I could always pick a winner.
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When I was filming ‘The Outsiders,’ my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.
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The president of the United States can’t even fire his chef. I’m not kidding.
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I’m a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle… You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.
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My issue isn’t about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.
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Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.
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I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It’s such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.
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Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing.
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It’s a little bit of a ‘if you can’t beat ’em – join ’em’ mentality for me when I think about Twitter.
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When I started on ‘The West Wing,’ that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn’t do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their ‘True Detective.’
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I’ve never met a funny person who wasn’t smart. I’ve met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I’ve never met a funny person who wasn’t smart.
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I am still in love with my wife.
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What’s gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn’t be done – that the man or woman on the street didn’t care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don’t have a problem with it.
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Children change you. They really do.
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To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
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In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.
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The first private space of my own wasn’t a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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I’ve been lucky enough in ‘The West Wing’ and ‘Brothers & Sisters‘ to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics.
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I wouldn’t be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes.
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If you’re telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.
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I loved fun. I spent my whole life in search of fun. I have not given up that part of myself.
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My hopes and aspirations haven‘t changed since I started in this business. They’ve been to be able to play drama, to be able to play comedy, to be able to play leading men, and to be able to play character roles. I have no other aspirations in this regard.
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Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.
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The Brat Pack is timeless.
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My son Matthew‘s beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a puppy, when he was tiny himself.
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I’ve gotten to believe it’s more fun to play politicians than actually be them.
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As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you’ve ever met.
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The first shooter video game stuff which – look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it’s not a thing for me. I’ve never played them. I don’t really get it. My kids do.
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One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it’s all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal – all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal – like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.
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Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don’t consider ambition to be a bad one. It’s served me very well in my life. Very well.
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I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting ‘The Outsiders.’
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I am terrible with people’s names.
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It’s funny what actors take issue with. Some won‘t do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won’t ever play anyone remotely unlikable – ‘Heroes only, please.’ Some won’t do violence. I have no such qualms.
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Television is populated with commitment-phobes.
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As an actor and a fledgling director, I’m used to making snap decisions that I’ll have to live with.
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Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.
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I have other obligations now – the show, my family, my life… though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn’t have any of those things.
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There’s this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can’t be in pain or they can’t have rough lives or be deep or interesting.
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I started out being a really, really liberal Democrat.
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I’m what you would call an ‘independent moderate.’
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I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they’ll play him long after I have.
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I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
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Individuals usually do a better job than the government.
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I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it’s a really big swing that I don’t know if I’m going to connect on.
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If I had been on ‘Ally McBeal,’ I would have been seen coming out of the shower on the first show.
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Getting married isn’t going to make your relationship better. It’s just a ceremony.
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I was a child of the ’80s.
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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.
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I don’t know what drives me.
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I love London.
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Sun Valley is one of my favorite spots.
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By making more people aware of lymphoma, Worldwide Lymphoma Awareness Day hopes to save lives by increasing early diagnosis and suitable treatment.
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I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun.
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I’m a registered Independent.
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I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn’t do for myself.
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I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.
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Here’s my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they’re emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that’s 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?
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The ’90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.
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I don’t like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don’t want my vote taken for granted.
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I’ve said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.
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I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.
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I’m no genius, but I’m real smart in one area – I picked the right mate.
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After my parentsdivorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day’s activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening.
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Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It’s almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it’s definitely a status symbol in our society. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be; it absolutely should be – but you shouldn’t be focusing on that.
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I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
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I’ll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: ‘You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you’re famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.’
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I didn’t go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.
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I’ve always written a little bit. I mean, I’ve written screenplays, and I’ve doctored my dialogue for years, and I’ve written speeches – I was a speechwriter on ‘The West Wing,’ so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I’d write a book.
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Let me just say this – sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.
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I’ve come to really like Twitter. You really do get to see what I’m about, and I like sharing with my fans.
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In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I’m a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.
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Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He’s a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he’s half fish.
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Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.
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If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.
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It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.
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We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we’re still talking about 25 years later.
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I try to be authentically who I am.
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Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.
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I’m perfectly flawed… I’ve got tons of flaws.
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I’m a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that’s a part of my culture.
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I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn’t on a location all over the world doing movies.
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JFK is a role I’ve always dreamt of playing.
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The Kennedys are our royals.
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I like all of John Carpenter‘s movies. ‘The Thing’ is my favorite.
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The ’80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.
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My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.
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My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn’t live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman.
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I’ll be sober ten years and married nine soon.
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For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business.
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Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.
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I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
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Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He’s a lawyer, my father’s a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.
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I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids’ birthday parties.
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I don’t think the Internet should be immune to the standing laws of countries.
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To go from playing Jack Startz in ‘Behind the Candelabra’ to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.
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I love acting so much that I don’t want to give that up.
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