Rob Lowe Quotes

#1. 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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#2. When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you're the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don't survive it.

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#3. After my parents' divorce 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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#4. Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.

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#5. 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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#6. In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.

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#7. Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.

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#12. My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

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

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#17. The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.

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#18. 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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#19. I've been on TV a long time, and I've never had a catch phrase.

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#20. I am still in love with my wife.

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#21. 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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#22. I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

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#23. 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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#24. I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

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#25. I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.

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#26. When I got sober, that was 1990.

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#27. A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

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#28. The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends.

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#29. 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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#30. Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.

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#31. The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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#32. Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

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#33. Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it.

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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. I only pray when it suits my own needs. I'm not proud about that.

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#37. Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

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#38. I don't think the Internet should be immune to the standing laws of countries.

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#39. 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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#40. I'm a political junkie.

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#41. I signed up for 'Brothers & Sisters' because I think it's a really great show. I like my character, and I'm really interested in what he has to do every day - and this cast is so spectacular. I really wanted to work with this particular group of people.

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#42. It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

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#43. My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

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#44. I am terrible with people's names.

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#45. 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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#46. I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.

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#47. The Kennedys are our royals.

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#48. 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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#49. The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

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#50. You can't study the map forever. At some point it's time to start walking; there is only so much daylight.

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#51. 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.

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#52. You can't build a life on a backstage pass or free swag at Sundance.

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#53. When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

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#54. My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

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#55. 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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#56. When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

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#57. 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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#58. There are so many family dinners you can do. I eventually had to go to them and say, 'Look, I don't do spatula work. I don't do scenes with oven mitts. If you're looking for that, you've got the wrong guy. I'm not doing scenes about casseroles. It's not happening.

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#59. 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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#60. My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

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#61. When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.

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#62. Never compare your insides to someone else's outsides.

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#63. I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

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#64. I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

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#65. I like all of John Carpenter's movies. 'The Thing' is my favorite.

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#66. Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

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#67. Feng shui isn't open to interpretation.

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#68. I try to be authentically who I am.

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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

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#72. 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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#73. I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.

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#74. I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun.

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#75. I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.

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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. I followed my heart and stayed out of the results.

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#79. 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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#80. Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

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#81. I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

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#82. 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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#83. The Brat Pack is timeless.

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#84. JFK is a role I've always dreamt of playing.

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#85. 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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#86. Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

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#87. I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter.

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

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#89. 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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#90. I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.

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

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#92. Sun Valley is one of my favorite spots.

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#93. Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony.

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#94. I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

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#95. My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around.

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#96. I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

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#97. For guys, I don't think you're ever ready ... I don't think you wake up and go, 'You know, today's the day I'm going to get married. By God, I'm ready. My house is in order, and it is time.'

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#98. There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

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#99. I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them.

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#100. 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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