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 LOWEAs far as my work for causes or social issues, that’s something I’m doing as a private citizen.
More Rob Lowe Quotes
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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.
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There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.
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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.
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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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You can’t believe everything you read. It’s never been more true.
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When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn’t have taken myself seriously.
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It’s part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.
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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.
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Ridley Scott’s company makes great work in whatever arena, whether it’s movies or commercials or television. They just do really quality stuff, so you know it’s going to be quality.
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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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I’ll be a role model on my terms, but don’t make a role model on your terms.
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I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I’m perceived. You’ll go crazy otherwise.
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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.
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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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When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He’s funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.
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