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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.

Rob Lowe

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.
ROB LOWE

Character Lying Sexy
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.
ROB LOWE

Calendar Kids Long Marked School
When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn’t have taken myself seriously.
ROB LOWE

Idols Realization Taken
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
I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.
ROB LOWE

Hands People Will
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
Anyone who’s lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.
ROB LOWE

Buried Fullest Scandal Somewhere
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.
ROB LOWE

Fighting Heavyweights People
It’s part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.
ROB LOWE

Actors Behind Jobs
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
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
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
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.
ROB LOWE

Fun Sign Language Thinking
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 think that in today’s world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.
ROB LOWE

Thinking Today World
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

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