Rob Lowe Quotes

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I want to make a serious legacy.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

I don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I really want my things to last, and I want my songs and my bodies of work to resonate with people. I want to hit people - at least make a dent in them. I want to make a mark somehow.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

Politics is the only profession where there's life after death.

A Politician is never remembered for how he started. He is remembered for how he finished.

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want people to just remember me for one thing.