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" 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. "

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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. "

Rob Lowe

Life

Family

Building

" Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that. "

" 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

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

Rob Lowe

Child

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" When I got sober, that was 1990. "

Rob Lowe

Sober

Got

" 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. "

" I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book. "

" Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa. "

" Television is populated with commitment-phobes. "

Rob Lowe

Television

" If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you. "

" I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over. "

" Feng shui isn't open to interpretation. "

Rob Lowe

Open

Interpretation

" 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. "

" Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it. "

" In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously. "

" I'm a political junkie. "

Rob Lowe

Political

" I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws. "

" JFK is a role I've always dreamt of playing. "

" 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. "

" Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items. "

" Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run. "

" 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. "

" We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success. "

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

" 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. "