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" I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity. "

Rob Lowe

Truth

Mistakes

Man

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" 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. "

" I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent. "

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Long

Been

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met. "

" I'm a registered Independent. "

Rob Lowe

Independent

Registered

" I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt. "

Rob Lowe

Make

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

Rob Lowe

World

Come

" I don't think the Internet should be immune to the standing laws of countries. "

" As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with. "

" 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. "

Rob Lowe

Divorce

Loving

" The Kennedys are our royals. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rob Lowe

Gift

Myself

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

Rob Lowe

Teen

Tea

" 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. "

" It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Children change you. They really do. "

" 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.' "

" I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.' "

" Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married. "

" I signed up for 'Brothers & Sisters' because I think it's a really great show. I like my character, and I'm really interested in what he has to do every day - and this cast is so spectacular. I really wanted to work with this particular group of people. "

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