Rob Lowe Quotes

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Rob Lowe

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 17, 1964

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.

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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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I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids' birthday parties.

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I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.'

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

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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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David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.

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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 think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

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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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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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Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.

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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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Sun Valley is one of my favorite spots.

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I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

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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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To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

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

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