Rob Lowe

“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?'”

“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.”

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

“I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.”

“I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.”

“I'm a political junkie.”

“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.”

“Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.”

“My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.”

“I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun.”

“Television is populated with commitment-phobes.”

“The Kennedys are our royals.”

“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.”