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" I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels. "
Rob Lowe
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" 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. "
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" We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we're still talking about 25 years later. "
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" 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.' "
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" I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter. "
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" The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends. "
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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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" To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor. "
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" Every relationship has its complications. "
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" I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have. "
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" 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. "
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" I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun. "
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" 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?' "
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" It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter. "
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" My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a puppy, when he was tiny himself. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up. "
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" 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. "
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" I started out being a really, really liberal Democrat. "
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" The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own. "
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" I love London. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing. "
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" I've come to really like Twitter. You really do get to see what I'm about, and I like sharing with my fans. "
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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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