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
David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.
Sun Valley is one of my favorite spots.
Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.
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.
My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.
I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I'm perceived. You'll go crazy otherwise.
When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.'
The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.
What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it.
We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we're still talking about 25 years later.
To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
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?'
There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child, particularly one about to leave home, watching this film is to be emotionally waterboarded.