Top 115 Rob Lowe Quotes

For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business.

By making more people aware of lymphoma, Worldwide Lymphoma Awareness Day hopes to save lives by increasing early diagnosis and suitable treatment.

I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun.

I’ve said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

It’s a little bit of a ‘if you can’t beat ’em – join ’em’ mentality for me when I think about Twitter.

I try to be authentically who I am.

I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It’s such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.

Like most guys, I don’t come to beauty regimes naturally. I’m dragged kicking and screaming by the best in the world.

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.

I’m perfectly flawed… I’ve got tons of flaws.

The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of ‘normal life.’

The first private space of my own wasn’t a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It’s almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it’s definitely a status symbol in our society. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be; it absolutely should be – but you shouldn’t be focusing on that.

My son Matthew’s beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a puppy, when he was tiny himself.

JFK is a role I’ve always dreamt of playing.

My issue isn’t about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.

Look, I owns guns.

I’ve come to really like Twitter. You really do get to see what I’m about, and I like sharing with my fans.

Malibu was a wellspring of counterculture group think.

I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting ‘The Outsiders.’

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they’re always unbelievable and they never go where you think they’re going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone’s age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I’m actually shocked that there isn’t more of a meld between our two industries.

I’m a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle… You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

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.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don’t have to.

Here’s my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they’re emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that’s 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?

I’ve always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern – I could always pick a winner.

I’m what you would call an ‘independent moderate.’

I couldn’t have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

After my parents’ divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day’s activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening.

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn’t on a location all over the world doing movies.

In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn’t very good at sports.

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that’s where we do most of our learning.

Getting married isn’t going to make your relationship better. It’s just a ceremony.

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

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.

I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids’ birthday parties.

My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

I’ve always written a little bit. I mean, I’ve written screenplays, and I’ve doctored my dialogue for years, and I’ve written speeches – I was a speechwriter on ‘The West Wing,’ so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I’d write a book.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

There is a movie called ‘My Dog Skip,’ starring my ‘Outsiders’ costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child, particularly one about to leave home, watching this film is to be emotionally waterboarded.

I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they’ll play him long after I have.

I learned to focus on what’s real rather than imagined; on not letting feelings drive the bus; on being courageous and honest; on putting my total effort into something and not worrying about the result.

My hopes and aspirations haven’t changed since I started in this business. They’ve been to be able to play drama, to be able to play comedy, to be able to play leading men, and to be able to play character roles. I have no other aspirations in this regard.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing.

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don’t consider ambition to be a bad one. It’s served me very well in my life. Very well.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

When I was filming ‘The Outsiders,’ my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I’m into those things.

Let me just say this – sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

Television is populated with commitment-phobes.

Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, ‘Here’s the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.’ ‘What about blue,’ I asked. He said, ‘Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?’

Children change you. They really do.

I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn’t do for myself.

The first shooter video game stuff which – look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it’s not a thing for me. I’ve never played them. I don’t really get it. My kids do.

Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it.

Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

I’ve had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months – it’s sort of like getting your oil checked – I ask, ‘I’m not an actual narcissist, am I?’ The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.

I’d love to serve my country. I would love it.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar – I was sick of playing high-school kids.

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He’s a lawyer, my father’s a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

I’d like to build a TV company for myself.