Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?
ROB LOWEActually, 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.
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Apparently Sodapop Curtis said “gnarly,” and Chris Traeger said “literally.” Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can’t stop with.
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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.”
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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.
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I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.
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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.
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I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
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I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids birthday parties.
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I happen to be a movie star, but I’m not saying, “Hey, I’m a role model. Imitate me.”
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[The Specials ]was always going to be an underground, underdog kind of movie. But I love when people bring that up, because it’s very early, vintage James Gunn.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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You wouldn’t want somebody in office who hasn’t experienced life.
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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.
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