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" 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. "

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Come

" My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman. "

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

" Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends. "

" In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel. "

" When I got sober, that was 1990. "

Rob Lowe

Sober

Got

" 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 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. "

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

Rob Lowe

Good

Much

" 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. "

" My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around. "

" I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now. "

" I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks. "

Rob Lowe

Even

Dive

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do. "

" One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates. "

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

" I don't know what drives me. "

Rob Lowe

Know

Drives

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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