Quotes from Rob Lowe

To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.

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.

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

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

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.

The Brat Pack is timeless.

My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a puppy, when he was tiny himself.

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.

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

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!

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