The Best Rob Lowe quotes

I’d love to serve my country. I would love it. — Rob Lowe

I love that movie [The Specials]. I love James Gunn. I always sort of suspected that he would do well for himself. — Rob Lowe

The Specials ]was always going to be an underground, underdog kind of movie. But I love when people bring that up, because it’s very early, vintage James Gunn. — Rob Lowe

Fred Savage,he’s America’s sweetheart, like I always say. One of the funniest, nicest, most decent… I love him like a brother. — Rob Lowe

The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes and ball–busting. — Rob Lowe

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

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are. — Rob Lowe

Tony Richardson ] just liked me, knew I was going to be what he wanted [in The Hotel New Hampshire], and that was the end of it. It was unbelievable. — Rob Lowe

It’s part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that. — Rob Lowe

It’s always a good day when I get to work with Jim Belushi, who I adore. — Rob Lowe

The universe works in mysterious ways and for me it worked out perfectly. With all respect to everybody else, Aaron Sorkin is and was The West Wing, full stop. There’s no West Wing without him. — Rob Lowe

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

My looks have prevented people from seeing my work. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

Ridley Scott’s company makes great work in whatever arena, whether it’s movies or commercials or television. They just do really quality stuff, so you know it’s going to be quality. — Rob Lowe

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 objectively. — Rob Lowe

Anything that is stifled will eventually ferment or explode. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

In my bachelor days, the priority wasn’t learning to cook. — Rob Lowe

Doctor Cukrowicz in Suddenly, Last Summer is] is one of the most unpronounceable roles in the modern–day theater day canon, and one of the most boring! — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I’m paying attention! — Rob Lowe

Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run. — Rob Lowe

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

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn’t be anybody else’s business. — Rob Lowe

So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It’s just life. — Rob Lowe

I enjoy experiencing life. Being a celebrity can really stand in the way of that. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

You can’t build a life on a backstage pass or free swag at Sundance. — Rob Lowe

Anyone who’s lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere. — Rob Lowe

You show me someone who’s led a perfect life and I’ll show you a dullard. — Rob Lowe

You show me a perfect person and I’ll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life. — Rob Lowe

My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma. — Rob Lowe

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

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. — Rob Lowe

I’ve been sober for 30 years. when i first got sober, i thought, my life is sober. my fun is done, and i’m not going to be cool anymore. — Rob Lowe

Anybody who doesn’t have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven’t lived their lives. — Rob Lowe

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

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. — Rob Lowe

You wouldn’t want somebody in office who hasn’t experienced life. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don’t consider ambition to be a bad one. It’s served me very well in my life. Very well. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone’s age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing. — Rob Lowe

I only pray when it suits my own needs. I’m not proud about that. — Rob Lowe

You would not believe the amount of feedback I’ve gotten over people binge–watching The West Wing. Most of them have binge–watched it countless times. — Rob Lowe

Sam Seaborn is the best character that’s ever been written for me, certainly. By far. And it’s a timeless show [The West Wing], one that’s having another resurgence now, with people so in an uproar politically. — Rob Lowe

I had no regrets when I did it, I have even less regret now because I can’t imagine staying on the West Wing show and then, six weeks later, Aaron Sorkin leaving. — Rob Lowe

The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving. — Rob Lowe

Somebody once told me–and I could be wrong about this–that The West Wing was, on any given episode, $300,000 over, on average. Now today, if you were $10,000 over budget, they would cancel you. For sure. — Rob Lowe

Jodie Foster] is one of my favorite actors and people in the business. — Rob Lowe

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

I’ve said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act. — Rob Lowe

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note. — Rob Lowe

J.f.kennedy] is an iconic figure. And to make it even worse, he’s a hero of mine. And every actor will tell you that you can’t play heroes. And you can’t play villains. You can only play human beings. — Rob Lowe

Ed Lauter] was an actor’s actor. I love working with that class of actor. You know, they come in, they do it, no bullshit. There’s no artifice, there’s no fanciness, they’re just honest and tough and direct. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

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

I literally knew nothing when I did that show [‘Tony Flanagan’]. It was the first time I signed an autograph, it was the first time I got fan letters, it was the first time people screamed when I came out. — Rob Lowe

Hank in the Sex Tape] such a fun part. That’s how Jake Kasdan and I ended up doing The Grinder together, because we had such a great time on Sex Tape. — Rob Lowe

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe

Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you’re doing intricate dialogue–it’s like patting your head and rubbing your stomach! — Rob Lowe

You can’t study the map forever. At some point it’s time to start walking; there is only so much daylight. — Rob Lowe

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.’ — Rob Lowe

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There’s nothing without them. — Rob Lowe

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. — Rob Lowe