Rob Lowe

"I'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you're famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too."

"The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma."

"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."

"It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot."

"Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude."

"I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play."