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
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.
The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.
My life is really based around my house and my friends and my family at the moment, and has been for a while now.
In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.
In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.
I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.
I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.
It was just one of those quirky, sort of naughty, sort of wild, sort of, you know, drunken things that people will do from time to time.
I learned to focus on what's real rather than imagined; on not letting feelings drive the bus; on being courageous and honest; on putting my total effort into something and not worrying about the result.
I like all of John Carpenter's movies. 'The Thing' is my favorite.
I have other obligations now-the show, my family, my life...though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.
I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.