American - Actor | March 17, 1964 -
When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.
Rob Lowe
MyselfYourselfI AmMeWritingYou
I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion.
LoveMotherGreatMeGrowing Up
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.
LifeFamilyHopeCourageTimeDoing
Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that.
MarriageSocietySayingFakeYou
Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony.
RelationshipBetterGetting Married
The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.
LearningChallengeParentRightFail
I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself.
MyselfSmartMeSomebodyWhoCould
It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter.
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