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[The Specials ]was always going to be an underground, underdog kind of movie. But I love when people bring that up, because it’s very early, vintage James Gunn.

Rob Lowe

Every relationship has its complications.
ROB LOWE

Complications Every People Relationships
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
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.
ROB LOWE

Good Periods Times
The universe works in mysterious ways and for me it worked out perfectly. With all respect to everybody else, Aaron Sorkin is and was The West Wing, full stop. There’s no West Wing without him.
ROB LOWE

Country Everybody Mysterious People Universe
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
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
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

Successful Teenager Thinking
[“John F. Kennedy” movie] was just really clever storytelling.
ROB LOWE

Clever Just Really Storytelling
Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can’t, and vice versa.
ROB LOWE

Both Dad Kids Mom World
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’m not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I’m not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.
ROB LOWE

Airports People Talking
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’ll be a role model on my terms, but don’t make a role model on your terms.
ROB LOWE

Make Models Roles Terms
Apparently Sodapop Curtis said “gnarly,” and Chris Traeger said “literally.” Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can’t stop with.
ROB LOWE

Gnarly Phrases Said Stop
Actually, if I had to do it over [leaving the show the West Wing], I’d do the same thing, because lost in the shuffle of it is that Aaron [Sorkin] left the same year I did. And I would not have wanted to be on The West Wing with somebody else writing it.
ROB LOWE

Wings Writing Years
I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
ROB LOWE

Country People Tea Teenagers

[The Specials ]was always going to be an underground, underdog kind of movie. But I love when people bring that up, because it’s very early, vintage James Gunn.

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[The Specials ]was always going to be an underground, underdog kind of movie. But I love when people bring that up, because it’s very early, vintage James Gunn.

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