Rob Lowe Quotations | Page 2

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

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.'

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

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.

I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.

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

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

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

I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'

I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

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.

I hadn't done a sex scene in like 10 years or something. Not particularly by design. It just hadn't come up, ... I was very nervous to even talk about it, you know, because it's, you know, it's Gwyneth, and I've known her since she was really little. And she's a really dear friend. And like, she and my wife are best pals. And I know the family.

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

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.

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

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

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.

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.

Sun Valley is one of my favorite spots.

I try to be authentically who I am.

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.

The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one.

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

I like to say I shared a dorm room with Cruise, Swayze and Dillon.

If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.

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.'

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

Before you could actually have face-lifts, they would pull your skin around the back of your head with rubber bands, where they would tape it. And then you'd have to wear a wig over it to hide the rubber bands. It was not the most comfortable.

By making more people aware of lymphoma, Worldwide Lymphoma Awareness Day hopes to save lives by increasing early diagnosis and suitable treatment.

It was just one of those quirky, sort of naughty, sort of wild, sort of, you know, drunken things that people will do from time to time.

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.

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.'

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

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

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.'

It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter.

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.

It's funny what actors take issue with. Some won't do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won't ever play anyone remotely unlikable - 'Heroes only, please.' Some won't do violence. I have no such qualms.

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

If I had been on 'Ally McBeal,' I would have been seen coming out of the shower on the first show.

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

For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.

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

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.

The fact is, I have a great home and I like to have people come up. I meet enough people just doing my grocery shopping; I don't need to go out and meet any more people.

Mostly people are interested in how somebody becomes an actor. And then, if they've had a couple of drinks, they want to know what Demi Moore's like or whatever. I mean, I don't mind people asking that at all, but when you've answered it five times...

I meet so many people. I want to be genuine and open with everyone, because when I was young and just starting out, I remember I was around people who were successful, and I thought that some were kind of cool or off-putting to their fans. It always really bothered me. So I think I may sometimes go too far out of my way.

People should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home or their own hotel room.

When people consent to do something, they should be able to do whatever they want.

When I'm angry I'm an incredibly tough person, because I don't get angry easily.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.

I can't help but be a little more gun-shy and wary about people.

What kind of person would run for president of the United States in today's political climate? It would have to be somebody who's never really been drunk in public, who's never had an affair, who never shoplifted when they were a little boy, who never had any sort of counseling at all. I just don't know how you go through your life meeting people, experiencing everything you can, trying to absorb, and not make some of those mistakes. It's impossible.

You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.

Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.

Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal.

I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.

There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.

My life is really based around my house and my friends and my family at the moment, and has been for a while now.

I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls.

You can't believe everything you read. It's never been more true.

I don't think you have to be perfect to be a role model.

You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life.

I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.

I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them.

If people are watching me 365 days a year, 360 days they might be bored to tears. And on the other five days, maybe I would qualify as Satan.

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.

It's the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the real issues, like abortion, the homeless, the deficit. The same is true with actors and their lifestyles.

The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

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.

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.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

Whether you're a movie star or doing time in a correctional institute, everybody can have bad judgment, and it's something you have to address. You learn to go on from it. It shouldn't stand in your way. You shouldn't let people continue to throw it in your face.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

I happen to be a movie star, but I'm not saying, "Hey, I'm a role model. Imitate me."

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

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.

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

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

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

Anything that is stifled will eventually ferment or explode.

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.

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

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

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.

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

I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.