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It’s the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the real issues, like abortion, the homeless, the deficit. The same is true with actors and their lifestyles.

Rob Lowe

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.
ROB LOWE

Lucky Proud Savages
I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I’m perceived. You’ll go crazy otherwise.
ROB LOWE

Crazy Trying Worry
As far as my work for causes or social issues, that’s something I’m doing as a private citizen.
ROB LOWE

Causes Citizens Issues
I literally knew nothing when I did that show [“Tony Flanagan”]. It was the first time I signed an autograph, it was the first time I got fan letters, it was the first time people screamed when I came out.
ROB LOWE

Fans First Letters People Time
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.
ROB LOWE

Believe Fire Museums
Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.
ROB LOWE

Everybody Good Naughty
It was a role [Dean Sanderson] I hadn’t seen before, and yet it was very accessible and relatable at the same time. I read scripts that have one or the other, but I rarely read scripts that have both. And it was laugh-out-loud funny.
ROB LOWE

Laughing Roles Scripts
Your interests change. I used to feel that if I spent evenings reading, or watching a film, or just doing nothing up here at the house, I would probably be missing something that was a lot more fun. I don’t have that sense anymore.
ROB LOWE

Fun House Reading
It’s part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.
ROB LOWE

Actors Behind Jobs
I had to learn American sign language. And I did stuff in it, stuff that was just for me and was fun, that I don’t think anyone would ever notice.
ROB LOWE

Fun Sign Language Thinking
[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.
ROB LOWE

Fun Reading School
The best part is not the biggest, it’s the one that’s most memorable.
ROB LOWE

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

Love People Special Wells
My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.
ROB LOWE

Looks People Seeing
I think that in today’s world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.
ROB LOWE

Thinking Today World
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

Calendar Kids Long Marked School
You wouldn’t want somebody in office who hasn’t experienced life.
ROB LOWE

Experience Office Want
The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.
ROB LOWE

Being Everyone Truthful Umbrella
William Devane was amazing [ in The Grinder] – that we were able to reinvent an acting legend as a comedy star – that’s very gratifying.
ROB LOWE

Able Acting Country People Stars
I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
ROB LOWE

Exciting Imagine Memories
I happen to be a movie star, but I’m not saying, “Hey, I’m a role model. Imitate me.”
ROB LOWE

Role Models Roles Stars
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.
ROB LOWE

Imagine Leaving Regret
It’s the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the real issues, like abortion, the homeless, the deficit. The same is true with actors and their lifestyles.
ROB LOWE

Issues Media Real
The press concentrates on a divorce an actor’s going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.
ROB LOWE

Actors Divorce Giving
Anyone who’s lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.
ROB LOWE

Buried Fullest Scandal Somewhere
The script was given to me by one of my agents and they didn’t tell me anything about it. My first reaction was, “The West Wing? Is it about a squadron of fighter jets?” Then I turned the page and saw, ‘by Aaron Sorkin’ and I knew it was going to be something good.
ROB LOWE

Anything Country Fighter Jet People Squadron
I think [The Outsiders] really forged who I am as an actor, and it’s one of the reasons why I keep being drawn to big ensembles where I’m surrounded by strong, successful actors or personalities. Because that was my initial foray into movie making.
ROB LOWE

Strong Successful Thinking

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