Latest Rob Lowe Quotes from Interviews

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• Somebody once told me - and I could be wrong about this - that The West Wing was, on any given episode, $300,000 over, on average. Now today, if you were $10,000 over budget, they would cancel you. For sure.

  Rob Lowe

  Today

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• The universe works in mysterious ways and for me it worked out perfectly. With all respect to everybody else, Aaron Sorkin is and was The West Wing, full stop. There's no West Wing without him.

  Rob Lowe

  Mysterious, Universe

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• I had no regrets when I did it, I have even less regret now because I can't imagine staying on the West Wing show and then, six weeks later, Aaron Sorkin leaving.

  Rob Lowe

  Regret, Leaving, Imagine

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• We had shot six episodes of the West Wing season when 9/11 happened. An extraordinary thing that would never happen today is Aaron going to the network and saying, "I think we need to go back and reshoot, I have something I want to do," and the network just kind of let him do it.

  Rob Lowe

  Thinking, Today, Kind

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you're doing intricate dialogue - it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach!

  Rob Lowe

  Trying, Kind, Dialogue

• The script was given to me by one of my agents and they didn't tell me anything about it. My first reaction was, "The West Wing? Is it about a squadron of fighter jets?" Then I turned the page and saw, 'by Aaron Sorkin' and I knew it was going to be something good.

  Rob Lowe

  Fighter, Jet

  "The Definitive History Of The West Wing" by James Dyer, www.empireonline.com.

• I just had such a blast coming up with this corporate dweeb [in the Sex Tape], a sort of nerd who was also doing coke and listening to death metal and was obsessed with Walt Disney art. I just felt it was a type of guy you hadn't really seen before, and I was so happy with how it came out.

  Rob Lowe

  Art, Sex, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• [Bad Influence]was David Koepp's first big screenplay. It was actually a writing sample that was around town to get David work at the time, and Steve Tisch - now the owner of the New York Giants - found it, loved it, and together we put it together. But I'd say that would be the one I'd tell people to go and look at if they haven't seen it.

  Rob Lowe

  New York, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• [Hank in the Sex Tape] such a fun part. That's how Jake Kasdan and I ended up doing The Grinder together, because we had such a great time on Sex Tape.

  Rob Lowe

  Sex, Fun, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Helmut Newton shot the ad campaign [for Bad Influence]. It's [James] Spader at the top of his game, right after Sex, Lies And Videotape. It's sexy. It's weird. It's dark. The characters are great.

  Rob Lowe

  Sexy, Lying, Character

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• David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.

  Rob Lowe

  Writing, Mean, Night

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• It was a little company that released [Bad Influence], it was really ahead of its time... I'm really proud of it. And it's Curtis Hanson. He'd directed a small movie before that, but it was his first directorial work that really worked.

  Rob Lowe

  Proud, Littles, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Some of the '80s movies I did are sort of museum pieces. St. Elmo's Fire is great as a sort of kitschy, "Oh, my god, I can't believe we wore that" type of movie.

  Rob Lowe

  Believe, Fire, Museums

  Source: www.avclub.com

• About Last Night... [movie] still stands up for me. Like, I'm as proud of that today and still have the kind of faith in it today to show it to a young couple as I did when it came out.

  Rob Lowe

  Couple, Night, Proud

  Source: www.avclub.com

• [ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career.

  Rob Lowe

  Night, Careers, Parks

  Source: www.avclub.com

• [Wayne's World and Tommy Boy] was all from hosting Saturday Night Live the first time [in 1990]. I just had such a great time, and I had such a simpatico relationship with Mike Myers. And Lorne [Michaels]. I'll always be grateful for Lorne, who saw me as funny.

  Rob Lowe

  Grateful, Night, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'd done light comedy. In some quarters, About Last Night... is a romantic comedy. So it wasn't like I'd been doing Sophie's Choice my entire career. But for whatever reason, nobody had really given me the room or the ability to be out and out funny. And Lorne [Michaels] and Mike [Myers] and Chris [Farley] and Dana [Carvey], that crop really helped me do that.

  Rob Lowe

  Night, Careers, Light

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I know, there are so many great lines [in Tommy Boy]. People say to me, "Did you eat paint chips for a living?" Or, "These shoes are worth more than your life." And the one I get all the time is, "Brothers don't shake hands, brothers gotta hug!"

  Rob Lowe

  Brother, Boys, Hands

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."

  Rob Lowe

  Animal, Comic, Emphasis

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• [Chris] Farley was a dear friend, and we remained close right up until the end. You know, there was nobody more fearless comedically than Chris. And that's saying a lot, because I'm friendly with a lot of funny people.

  Rob Lowe

  People, Fearless, Friendly

  Source: www.avclub.com

• [Allison Janney] could memorize anything.She would memorize in the makeup trailer!

  Rob Lowe

  Makeup, Trailers, Allison

• When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.

  Rob Lowe

  Choices, Firsts, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.

  Rob Lowe

  Actors, Hitting, Notes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Actually, if I had to do it over [leaving the show the West Wing], I'd do the same thing, because lost in the shuffle of it is that Aaron [Sorkin] left the same year I did. And I would not have wanted to be on The West Wing with somebody else writing it.

  Rob Lowe

  Writing, Years, Wings

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving.

  Rob Lowe

  Wings, Giving, Outsiders

  Source: www.avclub.com