John Lithgow Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
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I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.
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I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.
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I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.
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The moment you have children, it's like your heart gets out of your body, puts on clothes, and walks away.
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
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It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
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Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
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I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.
