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.
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More Rob Lowe Quotes
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The really good thing about my career is that I never went through a phase where I played characters who had names like “Partygoer,” “Waiter,” or “Guy #1.”
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You can’t believe everything you read. It’s never been more true.
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Last night, we were all watching Harry Potter in bed, and I thought, ‘This isn’t something you have when you’re single, that’s for sure.’
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I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids birthday parties.
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I love that movie [The Specials]. I love James Gunn. I always sort of suspected that he would do well for himself.
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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.
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Contrary to popular belief, I don’t go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it’ll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I’ll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.
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I don’t look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some ’80s hairdos that I’d like to do over.
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The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.
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I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
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Helmut Newton shot the ad campaign [for Bad Influence]. It’s [James] Spader at the top of his game, right after Sex, Lies And Videotape. It’s sexy. It’s weird. It’s dark. The characters are great.
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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.
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Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work objectively.
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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.
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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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