Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe
Robert Hepler "Rob" Lowe is an American actor. He has garnered fame for appearing in such films as The Outsiders, Oxford Blues, St. Elmo's Fire, About Last Night..., Square Dance, Wayne's World, Tommy Boy, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Thank You for Smokingand Sex Tape...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 March 1964
CityCharlottesville, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.
Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing.
Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.
Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.
I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.
I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.
Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.
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.
We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we're still talking about 25 years later.
A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.
As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.
As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.
In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.