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" I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion. "

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" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age. "

" 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.' "

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

Rob Lowe

Long

Been

" I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies. "

" 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?' "

" I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon. "

" By making more people aware of lymphoma, Worldwide Lymphoma Awareness Day hopes to save lives by increasing early diagnosis and suitable treatment. "

Rob Lowe

Early

People

" 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. "

" I try to be authentically who I am. "

Rob Lowe

Try

I Am

" 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 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. "

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

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

Rob Lowe

Child

" I started out being a really, really liberal Democrat. "

" I've been on TV a long time, and I've never had a catch phrase. "

Rob Lowe

Time

Catch

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

" In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk. "

" 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. "

" I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries. "

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

" I don't know what drives me. "

Rob Lowe

Know

Drives

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

Rob Lowe

Good

Much

" Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard. "

Rob Lowe

People

Know

" I am terrible with people's names. "

Rob Lowe

Names

People

" 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. "

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