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
My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.
My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman.
My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to be able to play drama, to be able to play comedy, to be able to play leading men, and to be able to play character roles. I have no other aspirations in this regard.
My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.
The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.
Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.
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.
I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.
Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony.
The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do.
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.