Rob Lowe Quotes

I loved 'The West Wing'; it's my favourite-ever television show.

I think 'The West Wing' hit at a moment in time that was just right for that show.

'West Wing' was a show about politics.

You would not believe the amount of feedback I've gotten over people binge-watching The West Wing. Most of them have binge-watched it countless times.

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick of it.

During my many hours on the Acela, I have taken to watching 'The West Wing,' Aaron Sorkin's drama of an idealised White House.

'The West Wing' was an incredible, inspiring show - and one of the reasons I wanted to be a speechwriter.

I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.

Anything that Aaron Sorkin writes, I could watch a million times. One of the few shows that I've watched in repeats was 'The West Wing.'

I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.

I love a bit of political drama; 'The West Wing' is probably my favourite television series of all time.

'House of Cards' I've watched since the first day.

NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous people who want to kill us.

I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.

Aaron Sorkin whole thing was that he didn't want the pomposity of the presidency in the West Wing. But once we cast Martin Sheen and we realised Martin's incredible accessibility, nothing felt pompous or aloof. If the show is about all the planets, let's end it with the sun.

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

It felt, like, so far from - or far enough from the reality of things that we can enjoy it purely as entertainment. And now it feels a little bit too in alignment, honestly, but yeah - so we'll see how season five [House of Cards] goes over there.

I remember running into Aaron's Sorkin office and going "The show's West Wing going to work! I know it's going to work!" And it was literally that moment: the energy, the place, the feel. I didn't know the show would be successful but I thought it was going to be good and I don't have that feeling very often. And we were rehearsing all of that not knowing who the President of the United States was!

As a fan, when I hear that a film is going to be turned into a television show, I do go to that place immediately of, 'Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be a waste of time? Why are they doing it?' It's '12 Monkeys,' and '12 Monkeys' is awesome, so I wanted to be a part of it and work on it.

I worked on a show called 'West Wing' before. I didn't work with Aaron Sorkin, but he created the show and set the tenor of the show, which was you follow the words of the script perfectly because there's a dramaturgical thing behind it.

I dreamed of being like Sam Seaborn on 'The West Wing'.

At first, when I received the script for the 'Archie' show, I was immediately turned off.

We did 'Doctor Who' for forty-eight weeks a year but I loved it.

I did a pilot for Nickelodeon that didn't end up going to series.