Rob Lowe

Actor

1964-03-17

Quotes by Rob Lowe

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

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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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• 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.

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• The Brat Pack is timeless.

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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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• 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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• 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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• My roles in comedies from 'Austin Powers' to 'Tommy Boy' to 'Wayne's World,' were sort of comedic 'straight man' parts. My character on 'Parks & Recreation' is the comic relief in a comedy. To play a character that appears strictly for laughs is sort of new for me and really fun.

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• Malibu was a wellspring of counterculture group think.

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• 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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