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"I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street"

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Rob Lowe is selling a kind of radical normalcy: the idea that public life, even at celebrity scale, can still feel basically human. The line lands because it’s disarmingly plain, almost stubbornly unpoetic. “Good or bad” does a lot of work here, smuggling in the knowledge that his career has had both sheen and scandal without naming either. It’s a preemptive rebuttal to the modern assumption that fame automatically equals hostility, that the crowd is a roiling tribunal waiting to punish you for the wrong headline.

The phrase “the man or woman on the street” is classic show-business shorthand, but it also flattens class and politics into something simpler: everyday strangers as a moral baseline. Lowe isn’t praising fans; he’s praising anonymity’s last remnants inside celebrity culture. In a media ecosystem where “public opinion” is often mediated by algorithms, trolls, and professional outrage, he draws a bright line between online aggression and offline encounters. The subtext is: don’t confuse the loudest voices with the real world.

There’s also image management in the humility of it. Lowe positions himself as someone who moves through America unscarred, even welcomed, which quietly reinforces his brand as affable, presentable, and durable. It’s not naivete so much as a plea for proportion: the street is kinder than the comment section, and maybe our cultural panic about each other is, at least sometimes, a screen.

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Rob Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is a Actor from USA.

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