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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. "

Rob Lowe

Friend

Motto

Unique

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" I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on. "

" 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. "

Rob Lowe

Time

Business

" I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man. "

" I was a child of the '80s. "

Rob Lowe

Child

" I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.' "

" Every relationship has its complications. "

" I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 have no such qualms. "

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

" My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school. "

" What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it. "

" I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up. "

" I loved fun. I spent my whole life in search of fun. I have not given up that part of myself. "

Rob Lowe

Loved

Myself

" 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. "

Rob Lowe

Yourself

I Am

" 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. "

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

" There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting. "

" For guys, I don't think you're ever ready... I don't think you wake up and go, 'You know, today's the day I'm going to get married. By God, I'm ready. My house is in order, and it is time.' "

" 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. "

Rob Lowe

Never

Missed

" Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others. "

" I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people. "

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

" 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 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 type thing. "