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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.

Rob Lowe

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
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
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.”
ROB LOWE

Careers Character Names
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 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
People should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home or their own hotel room.
ROB LOWE

Home Hotel People Want
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
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
What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn’t be anybody else’s business.
ROB LOWE

Life People Private
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
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.
ROB LOWE

Ability Achieve Mean
There’s this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can’t be in pain or they can’t have rough lives or be deep or interesting.
ROB LOWE

Bias Interesting Pain Prejudice
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
Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?
ROB LOWE

Chips Kids Paint
Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.
ROB LOWE

Actors Hitting Notes
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

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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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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