Rob Lowe famous quotes

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

#People

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

#Atlas #Imagine #Individual

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.
-- Rob Lowe

#Jobs #Liars #Lying

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

#Teenage #Boys #Speech

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.
-- Rob Lowe

#Wife #Sobriety #Campaigns

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

#Recovery #Addiction #Sobriety

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.
-- Rob Lowe

#Recovery #Sobriety

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.
-- Rob Lowe

#Fake #Truthful #Trump

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

#Realization #Life Is #Life Is Unfair

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

#Years #Nine #Married

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.
-- Rob Lowe

#Journey #Thinking #Goes On

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

#Years #Needs #Type

Being pulled that long and that hard for a 12-hour day gave me migraines. It's what they used to do before there were facelifts for actresses – you know, Joan Crawford's whole career was this. Then the makeup is like Earl Scheib auto body paint sprayed on my face.
-- Rob Lowe

#Makeup #Careers #Long

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

#Pain #Interesting #People

When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you're the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don't survive it.
-- Rob Lowe

#Crazy #People #Add

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

#Teenager #Successful #Thinking

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

#Blessed #Interesting #People

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

#Party #Kids #Dressing Up

Every relationship has its complications.
-- Rob Lowe

#Complication

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

#Memories #Imagine #Exciting

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

#Thinking #Maturity #Knowing Who You Are

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
-- Rob Lowe

#Men #Ordinary #Way

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.
-- Rob Lowe

#Beautiful #Men #People

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

#Teenager #Tea #China

Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also thought of my two boys and what kind of example I hoped to be. I would always want them to take charge of their own futures and not be paralyzed by the comfort and certainty of the status quo or be cowed by the judgment of those on the outside looking in.
-- Rob Lowe

#Boys #Two #Comfort

I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without warning, and often times marked with disappointment and tragedy, but equally often leading to a better understanding of the bittersweet truth of life.
-- Rob Lowe

#Disappointment #Thinking #Understanding

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

#Memorable #Most Memorable

We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.
-- Rob Lowe

#Thinking #Secret #President

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

#School #Kids #Sick

Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.
-- Rob Lowe

#Sports #Jobs #Memories

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

#Hands #People #Ill

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

#Good Life #Men #He Man

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

#Opportunity #Scare #Saying Yes

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

#Pain #Recovery #Past

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

#Kids #Paint #Chips

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.
-- Rob Lowe

#Strong #Character #Successful

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.
-- Rob Lowe

#People #Would Be #Uncomfortable

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

#Way #Sampling #Census

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.
-- Rob Lowe

#Congratulations #Attention #Littles

To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot.
-- Rob Lowe

#Achieve #Shots #Longevity