Quotes from Rob Lowe

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

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

I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

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.

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.

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

The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.

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

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

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

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.

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

My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

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

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.

I've been lucky enough in 'The West Wing' and 'Brothers & Sisters' to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics.

When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.'

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.

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.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

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.