Rob Lowe

“I loved fun. I spent my whole life in search of fun. I have not given up that part of myself.”

“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'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you're famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.'”

“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.”

“Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.”

“To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.”

“I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.”

“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.”

“I've been lucky enough in 'The West Wing' and 'Brothers & Sisters' to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics.”

“I started out being a really, really liberal Democrat.”

“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.”

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

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

“Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Sun Valley is one of my favorite spots.”

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