283 Quotes by Rob Lowe

Whether you're a movie star or doing time in a correctional institute, everybody can have bad judgment, and it's something you have to address. You learn to go on from it. It shouldn't stand in your way. You shouldn't let people continue to throw it in your face.

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.

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

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself.

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

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

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.