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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.

Rob Lowe

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

Clever Just Really Storytelling
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
[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
William Devane was amazing [ in The Grinder] – that we were able to reinvent an acting legend as a comedy star – that’s very gratifying.
ROB LOWE

Able Acting Country People Stars
You can’t believe everything you read. It’s never been more true.
ROB LOWE

Believe Everything More True
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
In school, I had two or three best guy friends, but mostly if I was just hanging, I’d like to talk to the girls, because they were more interesting. I think they were smarter.
ROB LOWE

Girl School Thinking
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
The best part is not the biggest, it’s the one that’s most memorable.
ROB LOWE

Memorable Most Memorable
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
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
Every relationship has its complications.
ROB LOWE

Complications Every People Relationships
My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.
ROB LOWE

Looks People Seeing
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 think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
ROB LOWE

Knowing Maturity Part Thinking
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
That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I’m unendingly proud of it.
ROB LOWE

Lucky Proud Savages
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
As far as my work for causes or social issues, that’s something I’m doing as a private citizen.
ROB LOWE

Causes Citizens Issues
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 LOWE

Character People Wings
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
You wouldn’t want somebody in office who hasn’t experienced life.
ROB LOWE

Experience Office Want
I had no regrets when I did it, I have even less regret now because I can’t imagine staying on the West Wing show and then, six weeks later, Aaron Sorkin leaving.
ROB LOWE

Imagine Leaving Regret
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
When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn’t have taken myself seriously.
ROB LOWE

Idols Realization Taken
It’s always a good day when I get to work with Jim Belushi, who I adore.
ROB LOWE

Adore Good Day Work

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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