Rob Lowe Quotes:
Ocupation: Film actor
Life: b. March 17, 1964
Birthday: March 17
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.
source: Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.107, Macmillan
topic: Jobs, Liars, Lying, Spacecraft, Great Liar, Killing Someone, Conventional
