Top 336 Quotes & Sayings by Rob Lowe
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Last updated on September 15, 2024.
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.
It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.
If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.
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.
I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.
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.
Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.
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.
As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.
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.
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.
I was a child of the '80s.
The Brat Pack is timeless.
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.
I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.
Feng shui isn't open to interpretation.
I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
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.
I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.
When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.
If I had been on 'Ally McBeal,' I would have been seen coming out of the shower on the first show.
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.
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.
I started out being a really, really liberal Democrat.
My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.
The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'
In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.
I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.
Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.
I'd love to serve my country. I would love it.
Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it.
When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.
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.
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.
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.
If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.
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.
Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.
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.
Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.
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.
I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play.
I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'
The Kennedys are our royals.
We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.
I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.
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.
I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.
I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.
The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.
I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.
My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.
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.
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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