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" 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.' "

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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. "

Rob Lowe

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Mistakes

Man

" David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat. "

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

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" Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to. "

" What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it. "

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

" Fame is not a natural condition for human beings. "

" Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married. "

" Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated. "

Rob Lowe

Being

Say

" 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?' "

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

Rob Lowe

Good

Much

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

" Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing. "

" I'd like to build a TV company for myself. "

Rob Lowe

Company

Build

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it. "

" Here's my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they're emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that's 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong? "

Rob Lowe

You

Fame

" 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. "

" I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter. "

" 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. "

" 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 wouldn't be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes. "

" There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting. "

" The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "

" I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture. "

Rob Lowe

Shoot

Culture

" I'd love to serve my country. I would love it. "

" I think part of maturity is knowing who you are. "

" 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

" The Kennedys are our royals. "