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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

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

Life People Private
[Chris] Farley was a dear friend, and we remained close right up until the end. You know, there was nobody more fearless comedically than Chris. And that’s saying a lot, because I’m friendly with a lot of funny people.
ROB LOWE

Fearless Friendly People
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
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

Laughing Roles Scripts
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
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
I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
ROB LOWE

Exciting Imagine Memories
I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
ROB LOWE

Knowing Maturity Part Thinking
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.
ROB LOWE

Quality Stuff Television
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
[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It’s been fun to be a part of that ride, where it’s become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people’s required reading in schools.
ROB LOWE

Fun Reading School
There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.
ROB LOWE

Dark Evil Sides
If people find me attractive, it would be for reasons that anybody finds anybody attractive. It’s something that comes from within, and it manifests itself physically.
ROB LOWE

Come Manifest People Reason Something
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
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
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
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
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
Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?
ROB LOWE

Chips Kids Paint
Anyone who’s lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.
ROB LOWE

Buried Fullest Scandal Somewhere
I love that movie [The Specials]. I love James Gunn. I always sort of suspected that he would do well for himself.
ROB LOWE

Love People Special Wells
I don’t like any sport where you’re already exhausted when you’re done putting on the equipment.
ROB LOWE

Done Exhausted Sports
I happen to be a movie star, but I’m not saying, “Hey, I’m a role model. Imitate me.”
ROB LOWE

Role Models Roles Stars
You can’t believe everything you read. It’s never been more true.
ROB LOWE

Believe Everything More True
[“John F. Kennedy” movie] was just really clever storytelling.
ROB LOWE

Clever Just Really Storytelling
Chris [Farley] – I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on “animal.”
ROB LOWE

Animal Comic Emphasis
My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.
ROB LOWE

Looks People Seeing

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.

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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.

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