Crushable Books: Stories Rob Lowe Only Tells His Many Many Many Friends

[Chris Penn] "Charlie's dad is an actor, though."
"Holy shit! A real actor?
"Yeah, he's done a bunch of movies."
"Can I meet him?"
Chris laughs. "Are you kidding? He's been gone for almost two years working on a film about war somewhere in the Philippines." (Page 40)

"Later I lean the movie's called Apocalypse Now and his name is Martin Sheen." (Page 41)

"He's not all that much older than me really. Maybe nineteen or twenty. He's black, with big, sweet eyes."
"Hi, I'm Rob."
He smiles dazzlingly. "Hi, I'm LeVar." (Page 59)

"By the following Friday, LeVar Burton was the most famous face in America." (Page 59)

"As we say good-bye, Sarah takes my arm."
"Will you do this forever, you think?"
"Do what forever?"
"Acting, silly."
"I don't know. I hope so. What about you?"
"It's what I love," she says, her eyes glowing with sweet intensity. "I hope I can do it forever." (Page 75)

"Twenty-one years later, I'm at the Golden Globes ceremony, nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television series-Drama for The West Wing. I don't win that night, and while I'm thrilled when Sarah Jessica Parker does win for her smash, Sex and the City. She said she wanted to do it forever, I remember as she walks up to the podium." (Page 75)

"Janet comes from a big family with a ton of show business savvy. She is painfully shy but we are about the same age and we become confidants." (Page 87)

"Next to to me as I write this is today's newspaper. In it, I see a photo of my old friend Janet. The caption reads, "Janet Jackson sells out opening night of new world tour." (Page 88)

"Holly is the star at all the talent shows and even people like Linda Ronstadt make the pilgrimage to our school auditorium to hear her sing (Later in life, Holly will have a Hollywood career of her own, starring in tons of television shows. But now we do our scenes together in front of the drama teacher...)
(Page 58)

"A girl who I've been doing scenes with in my drama class, Holly Robinson, is popular."
(Page 58)

"There is just no way anyone is likely to take a nineteen year-old boy as pretty as I was seriously." (Page179)

[on being in rehab for 30 days] "I would kill for a cup of coffee. I would drown puppies for a Big Mac." (Page 255)