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 LOWEI have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
More Rob Lowe Quotes
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I think that in today’s world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.
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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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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.
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What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn’t be anybody else’s business.
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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.
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I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I’m perceived. You’ll go crazy otherwise.
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[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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.
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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.
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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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I don’t look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some ’80s hairdos that I’d like to do over.
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