Explore Quotes by 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?'

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

My roles in comedies from 'Austin Powers' to 'Tommy Boy' to 'Wayne's World,' were sort of comedic 'straight man' parts. My character on 'Parks & Recreation' is the comic relief in a comedy. To play a character that appears strictly for laughs is sort of new for me and really fun.

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.

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

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.

The Kennedys are our royals.

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

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

The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

Feng shui isn't open to interpretation.

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.

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.

I started out being a really, really liberal Democrat.

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