I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on... by Rob Lowe

I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.

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Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

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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.

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To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in o... by Rob Lowe

To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot.

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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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I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

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It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to... by Rob Lowe

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.

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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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I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls.

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People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect.... by Rob Lowe

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

perfect today people

[Virginia Madsen] big part in that movie ['Class'] required her shirt to get ripped off, and looking back, it couldn't be a more egregious, vintage, lowbrow, 1980s Porky's-esque, shoehorned-in moment. Like, you would never have that moment in a movie that aspired to be what that movie did today.

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['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and answered my question, "Why this? Why now?" And the "why now" is that it's 50 years since the assassination, and the country needs to have and will have a conversation about that. And the "why this" is the construct, which I think is sort of ingenious.

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["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling. by Rob Lowe

["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

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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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[On "John F. Kennedy" set] everybody was very interested in the accent. Even my collaborators were very curious to know if I was even going to do it. And I was, like, "You just can't not do it." I think everybody was worried that it was going to sound like the guy from... is it The Simpsons?

guy sound thinking

I think I have a pretty good ear. I mean, even just starting with, like, Austin Powers, where I did young Robert Wagner. People were, like, "How do you imitate Robert Wagner? What does he sound like? What does that even involve?".

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My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

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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.

wings character people

You would not believe the amount of feedback I've gotten over people binge-watching The West Wing. Most of them have binge-watched it countless times.

wings believe people

It was a little company that released [Bad Influence], it was really ahead of its time... I'm really proud of it. And it's Curtis Hanson. He'd directed a small movie before that, but it was his first directorial work that really worked.

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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.

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