Rob Lowe Quotes

I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy.

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

I love J. F. K. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

I was very political when JFK ran.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!

[Describing John F. Kennedy:] He is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

I guess the Kennedys were just too busy having an affair with Marilyn to worry about Vietnam.

The John F. Kennedy presidency, with its glittering court of Camelot, cemented the impression that it was the Democrats who represented the thinking men and women of America.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

I love John F. Kennedy. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him. I was just a kid when he was around. I did a lot of preparation, a lot of research. I can't do him... I sort of get a slight Boston accent, and I tried to get his rhythm. My only fear was that I was too old to play him, because I was much older than he was when he died, so I was concerned about that. But it was one of those, "Oh what the hell, I'm doing this. It's a great part, and I'm going for it."

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

My one ambition is to play a hero.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I told everybody that I was going to be an actress in Hollywood one day. People looked at me like I was crazy.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.