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" 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. "
Rob Lowe
Women
People
Beautiful
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" When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.' "
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" I'm a registered Independent. "
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" I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. "
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" I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies. "
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" I think part of maturity is knowing who you are. "
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" I am still in love with my wife. "
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" I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent. "
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" 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. "
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" My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma. "
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" I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. "
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" I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon. "
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" When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie. "
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" If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one. "
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Will
" 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. "
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" We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success. "
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" 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. "
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" The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding. "
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" Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa. "
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" I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play. "
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" 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 me some latitude to write about others. "
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" When I got sober, that was 1990. "
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" Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one. "
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" Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items. "
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" As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with. "
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