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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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World

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" I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand. "

" I try to be authentically who I am. "

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Try

I Am

" Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work. "

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

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Time

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" Every relationship has its complications. "

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Early

People

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" I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. "

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

" The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one. "

" 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 got sober, that was 1990. "

Rob Lowe

Sober

Got

" Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony. "

" Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are. "

" 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. "

" My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports. "

" Feng shui isn't open to interpretation. "

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Open

Interpretation

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" 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. "

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Business

" 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. "

" Television is populated with commitment-phobes. "

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Television

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

" After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day's activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening. "