Fatherhood Quote by Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe sells the casting story the way actors are trained to: as destiny with a pulse. The first move is pedigree. “He’s a lawyer, my father’s a lawyer” isn’t just trivia; it’s a bid for authority, a way to launder performance through something that reads as real. Then he slips in the confession: “I always wanted to play one.” That’s the actor’s tell. He’s admitting the hunger isn’t to practice law, but to wear the cultural armor of it - competence, verbal agility, status - without the constraints of the job.

“Temperamentally… alike” is doing double duty. It reassures the audience that this isn’t pure fabrication (I’m not pretending; I’m channeling), while quietly acknowledging that temperament is what actors trade in. The law becomes a personality type, not a profession. That’s Hollywood’s favorite shortcut: identity as vibe.

The line that spikes the whole thing is the romantic metaphor: “I fell in love with it as I would a woman.” It’s dated, a little self-mythologizing, and still effective because it frames the role as an affair - intoxicating, consuming, flattering to the ego. Lowe isn’t just describing preparation; he’s describing seduction by an image of himself. In context, it reads like a peek into how prestige TV and star personas feed each other: the part “felt right” because it lets him inhabit inherited authority, then call it chemistry.