Top 40 Rob Lowe Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.”

— Rob Lowe

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2. “So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It’s just life.”

— Rob Lowe

3. “Never compare your insides to someone else’s outsides.”

— Rob Lowe

4. “Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don’t get it.”

— Rob Lowe

5. “I’m thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without warning, and often times marked with disappointment and tragedy, but equally often leading to a better understanding of the bittersweet truth of life.”

— Rob Lowe

6. “Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don’t put it on a platform. I don’t campaign about it. It’s just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being – my wife, Sheryl – which I was never able to do before.”

— Rob Lowe

7. “Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.”

— Rob Lowe

8. “There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.”

— Rob Lowe

9. “I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.”

— Rob Lowe

10. “You can’t study the map forever. At some point it’s time to start walking; there is only so much daylight.”

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11. “The ’80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.”

— Rob Lowe

12. “Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?”

— Rob Lowe

13. “I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.”

— Rob Lowe

14. “Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.”

— Rob Lowe

15. “Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.”

— Rob Lowe

16. “The best part is not the biggest, it’s the one that’s most memorable.”

— Rob Lowe

17. “When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you’re the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don’t survive it.”

— Rob Lowe

18. “Nothing in life is unfair. It’s just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also thought of my two boys and what kind of example I hoped to be. I would always want them to take charge of their own futures and not be paralyzed by the comfort and certainty of the status quo or be cowed by the judgment of those on the outside looking in.”

— Rob Lowe

19. “I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.”

— Rob Lowe

20. “We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane’s attention, to very little success.”

— Rob Lowe

21. “I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said that 90% of successful movie making is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with is a unique variable in all of our experience, and it is hugely important in making us who we are.”

— Rob Lowe

22. “When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn’t have taken myself seriously.”

— Rob Lowe

23. “Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can’t, and vice versa.”

— Rob Lowe

24. “Last night, we were all watching Harry Potter in bed, and I thought, ‘This isn’t something you have when you’re single, that’s for sure.’”

— Rob Lowe

25. “To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot.”

— Rob Lowe

26. “I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.”

— Rob Lowe

27. “When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they’re always unbelievable and they never go where you think they’re going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.”

— Rob Lowe

28. “I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.”

— Rob Lowe

29. “I don’t look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some ’80s hairdos that I’d like to do over.”

— Rob Lowe

30. “I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar – I was sick of playing high-school kids.”

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31. “Look, if you want to wear a blindfold and stumble around your house bumping into things to learn how to play ‘blind,’ you can do that. A lot of actors do. You can block your hearing and not speak. But great performances are based on truth. And the truth is that you, Rob Lowe, can hear and you can speak.”

— Rob Lowe

32. “I wouldn’t go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It’s just a question of when and I’d rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.”

— Rob Lowe

33. “Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? ‘Atlas’ is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.”

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34. “Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.”

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35. “Every relationship has its complications.”

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36. “I’ll be sober ten years and married nine soon.”

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37. “If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.”

— Rob Lowe

38. “I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.”

— Rob Lowe

39. “Being pulled that long and that hard for a 12-hour day gave me migraines. It’s what they used to do before there were facelifts for actresses – you know, Joan Crawford’s whole career was this. Then the makeup is like Earl Scheib auto body paint sprayed on my face.”

— Rob Lowe

40. “I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids birthday parties.”

— Rob Lowe

41. “My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.”

— Rob Lowe

42. “Show me someone who doesn’t have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I’ll show you a dullard.”

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43. “The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.”

— Rob Lowe

44. “I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I’m into those things.”

— Rob Lowe

45. “Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.”

— Rob Lowe

46. “Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.”

— Rob Lowe

47. “I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.”

— Rob Lowe