Rob Lowe Quotes

Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet.

When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.

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

Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?

[Allison Janney] could memorize anything.She would memorize in the makeup trailer!

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.

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

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

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

I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

I don't like any sport where you're already exhausted when you're done putting on the equipment.

[Jodie Foster] is one of my favorite actors and people in the business.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You wouldn't want somebody in office who hasn't experienced life.

Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.

Anything that is stifled will eventually ferment or explode.

I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.

It's always a good day when I get to work with Jim Belushi, who I adore.

[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.

The really good thing about my career is that I never went through a phase where I played characters who had names like "Partygoer," "Waiter," or "Guy #1."

That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it.

Apparently Sodapop Curtis said "gnarly," and Chris Traeger said "literally." Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can't stop with.

To go from "gnarly" to "literally," that shows I'm growing up, right?

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!

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.

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.

About Last Night... [movie] still stands up for me. Like, I'm as proud of that today and still have the kind of faith in it today to show it to a young couple as I did when it came out.

Some of the '80s movies I did are sort of museum pieces. St. Elmo's Fire is great as a sort of kitschy, "Oh, my god, I can't believe we wore that" type of movie.

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

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career.

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

I've always found women more interesting than men.

In school, I had two or three best guy friends, but mostly if I was just hanging, I'd like to talk to the girls, because they were more interesting. I think they were smarter.

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

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.