Rob Lowe

“I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.”

“It's funny what actors take issue with. Some won't do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won't ever play anyone remotely unlikable - 'Heroes only, please.' Some won't do violence. I h...”

“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, q...”

“The Kennedys are our royals.”

“When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives...”

“Malibu was a wellspring of counterculture group think.”

“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...”

“When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.”

“Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.”

“The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.”

“I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis typ...”

“I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture.”

“I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.”

“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 n...”

“I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.”

“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.”

“To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.”

“I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'”

“Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.”

“I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.”