Mostly people are interested in how somebody becomes an actor. And then, if they've had a couple of drinks, they want to know what Demi Moore's like or whatever. I mean, I don't mind people asking that at all, but when you've answered it five times...

Rob Lowe

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Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

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Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it. by Rob Lowe

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

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There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led t... by Rob Lowe

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

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Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

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I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.

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They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

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As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

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I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

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Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. by Rob Lowe

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

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We shot every scene of mine in the entire movie in five days. All my coverage, everything. I left. They went back and shot everybody else around me. Insane. The part [Billie in Crazy Six] called for a handsome, coiffed cool guy romantic lead, and I showed up like you see him in the movie. And they let me do it.

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All the shows we did pre-airdate, and I'd come out - "Rob Lowe!" - and it was [Offers bored applause.] After the show aired? I came out - "Rob Lowe!" - and the place was, like, bedlam. And then the next week, they wouldn't let anyone under the age of 20 into the audience. And I'm going, "So that's how it works! Okay!"

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Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on t... by Rob Lowe

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

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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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At the time, The Hotel New Hampshire was John Irving's favorite adaptation of his work, which meant a lot to all of us who worked on that movie.It's amazing to me that that was a studio movie. That was a summer studio release! If that doesn't tell you how much the business has changed, nothing will.

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We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.

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So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's jus... by Rob Lowe

So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

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We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's... by Rob Lowe

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

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Somebody once told me - and I could be wrong about this - that The West Wing was, on any given episode, $300,000 over, on average. Now today, if you were $10,000 over budget, they would cancel you. For sure.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are. by Rob Lowe

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

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