Sam Seaborn is the best character that’s ever been written for me, certainly. By far. And it’s a timeless show [The West Wing], one that’s having another resurgence now, with people so in an uproar politically.
ROB LOWEThere is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.
More Rob Lowe Quotes
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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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I don’t like any sport where you’re already exhausted when you’re done putting on the equipment.
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[“John F. Kennedy” movie] was just really clever storytelling.
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I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
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Chris [Farley] – I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on “animal.”
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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’ll be a role model on my terms, but don’t make a role model on your terms.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You wouldn’t want somebody in office who hasn’t experienced life.
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If people are attracted to me, I like to think it’s because I’m an interesting person, fairly smart, well-rounded, with a good sense of humor. I would like to think that’s what I am. I would like to think people see it.
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Apparently Sodapop Curtis said “gnarly,” and Chris Traeger said “literally.” Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can’t stop with.
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The best part is not the biggest, it’s the one that’s most memorable.
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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.
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