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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.

Rob Lowe

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
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Country People Tea Teenagers
When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn’t have taken myself seriously.
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Idols Realization Taken
You can’t believe everything you read. It’s never been more true.
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Believe Everything More True
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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Actors Behind Jobs
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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Careers Character Names
I love that movie [The Specials]. I love James Gunn. I always sort of suspected that he would do well for himself.
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Love People Special Wells
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.
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Wings Writing Years
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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Crazy Trying Worry
Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?
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Chips Kids Paint
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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Actors Divorce Giving
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.
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Fighting Heavyweights People
My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.
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Looks People Seeing
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.
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Quality Stuff Television
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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Gnarly Phrases Said Stop
There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.
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Dark Evil Sides
When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He’s funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.
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Choices Comedy Firsts
If people are attracted to me, I like to think it’s because I’m an interesting person, fairly smart, well-rounded, with a good sense of humor. I would like to think that’s what I am. I would like to think people see it.
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People Smart Thinking
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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Fun House Reading
Chris [Farley] – I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on “animal.”
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Animal Comic Emphasis
The best part is not the biggest, it’s the one that’s most memorable.
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Memorable Most Memorable
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.
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Bias Interesting Pain Prejudice
Last night, we were all watching Harry Potter in bed, and I thought, ‘This isn’t something you have when you’re single, that’s for sure.’
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Bed Night Potters
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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Believe Fire Museums
Anyone who’s lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.
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Buried Fullest Scandal Somewhere
It’s the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the real issues, like abortion, the homeless, the deficit. The same is true with actors and their lifestyles.
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Issues Media Real
I happen to be a movie star, but I’m not saying, “Hey, I’m a role model. Imitate me.”
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Role Models Roles Stars
Ginnifer Goodwin said it very well – we’re not doing the Hall Of Presidents at Disneyland. This is my interpretation of [J.F] Kennedy.
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Interpretation President Said

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