Quotes from Rob Lowe

If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.

As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.

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

Fred Savage,he's America's sweetheart, like I always say. One of the funniest, nicest, most decent... I love him like a brother.

The Kennedys are our royals.

The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.

I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels.

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.'

I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.

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.

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them.

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've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.

I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'

I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter.