But I entered 2000 with a new inspiration: Aaron Sorkin, who is the creator and executive producer of The West Wing.
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.
I believe that different people have been kings in the movie industry over the years.
I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
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.
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.
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 have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.
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.
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
I think part of maturity is knowing who you are. If people don't like it, it is not going to affect how I feel.
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.
I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.
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.
Look, it was very hard for the audience to sympathize with a good-looking, spoiled, white, rich kid. I get that.
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
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.
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.
Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.
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.
We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.
What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it.
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.
You know, at various times in my career, I've been fortunate enough to have hooked up with some fantastic mentors.
As a child, Rob Lowe lived in Charlottesville Virginia, Dayton Ohio, and Los Angeles California.
Rob Lowe is a Pisces and stands 5'10" tall. He has a penchant for Cuban cigars and keeps a silver humidor in his office.
Lowe auditioned for the role of "Caledon 'Cal' Hockley" in Titanic but lost out to actor Billy Zane.
During an obvious low point in his carer, Rob Lowe became involved song-and-dance routine with Snow White. Unimpressed Disney executives sued for unauthorized use of its character.
Rob dated Princess Stephanie of Monaco in 1986.
He was considered for the role of Dr. Derek Shepard on Grey's Anatomy.
He shares a birthday with Kurt Russell and Gary Sinise.
He attended Santa Monica High School with Sean Penn and Emilio Estevez.
He founded the Homeowners Defense Fund.
When he was a young boy, he had dreams of becoming a marine biologist.
Rob Lowe has been married to Sheryl Berkoff since 1991, and they have two children, Edward Mathew and John Owen.
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