Rob Lowe Quotes

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

I can see how child stars can be thrown off-kilter.

I'm not stupid enough to think that I can deal with another 10 or 15 years of major exposure. I think that is the ultimate tragedy of fame... People who are simply out of control, who are lost. I've seen so many of them, and I don't want to be another cliche.

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires, and there's no school for learning how to handle it well or gracefully. It's a hard thing to figure out. A lot of people don't deal with it well because they're either too paranoid or they're doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in public.

I've gone through a lot of the same things like Britney Spears. I just don't have a mug shot.

Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life.

I don't understand how most pop stars live this life being told what to do, what to wear, all the time. Maybe money does mean more to some people.

I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.

I always feel bad when I meet celebrities and I can just tell every single thing about their personal life, I just say, "Well, they don't have friends. Or a therapist." Once you have both, you don't have to share everything with people, because then you don't have a private life, and then you're, I guess, a workaholic.

I feel like I'm over-paid-attention-to. I'm not trying to be a GIF. I'm not trying to be a picked-up-on-Twitter quote. All I'm trying to do is act. And I have to promote movies. And I am, at the end of the day, I guess, a f - king lunatic.

I think the level of criticism you're under is never healthy. I think that's why lots of people in Hollywood end up in rehab. There are the ups and downs. I was never a fan of the attention.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.

I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me. I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.

History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business. I'm really glad that I was famous and successful at the time I was because it was bad enough then in a profession which tended to eat you up and never give you any free time. But I think that the youngsters today have a really bad time from every angle.

A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.

Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.