Rob Lowe Quotes

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.

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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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• I’ll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

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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 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane’s attention, to very little success.

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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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• Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

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

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Rob Lowe (18)

Birth:	17th March, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Robert Hepler "Rob" Lowe is an American film and television actor. He garnered fame after appearing in such films as The Outsiders, Oxford Blues, About Last Night..., St. Elmo's Fire, Wayne's World, Tommy Boy and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. On television, he played Sam Seaborn on The West Wing and Senator Robert McCallister on Brothers & Sisters.

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