283 Quotes by Rob Lowe

There are so many family dinners you can do. I eventually had to go to them and say, 'Look, I don't do spatula work. I don't do scenes with oven mitts. If you're looking for that, you've got the wrong guy. I'm not doing scenes about casseroles. It's not happening.

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

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

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

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.

The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.