Rob Lowe Quotes

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

Even though I'm an actor, I'm a very bad liar.

I can't act. I can't lie.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever.

To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.

You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I'd like the audience not to know if I'm acting.

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.