John Lithgow Quotes

If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love.

John Lithgow

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• I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Best
  • Editor

• As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Loss

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Like
  • Makeup
  • Where

• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Expectation

• Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Long
  • Remember
  • You

• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Future
  • Man
  • Dog

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Think
  • Career
  • Me

• I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Party
  • Saying

• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Up
  • Children
  • Home

• But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Know
  • Somebody
  • Compete

• I always put on Chanel No 5 after I've had a bath or before I go to bed. If I'm going out, I'll layer other fragrances on top.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Bed
  • Top
  • Bath

• I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Forgive

• I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Know
  • Motorcycle
  • Riding

• You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Focus

• I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way, which is as human, petty, bumbling.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Think

• Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • World
  • Problems
  • Will

• Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Real
  • Character
  • Intelligent

• There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix, you never know exactly what's the point of view of the filmmaker. This breaks the stability of the belief that a filmmaker is somebody who has a logical relationship with his own material. These elements create this atmosphere that I find more interesting than a normal atmosphere, based only on the characters.

  

  Albert Serra
  • Attitude
  • Characters
  • Somebody

• For the gun work, I had more of the basic training from the previous [movie John Wick] and the weapon work I have done in the past. In the second movie [John Wick 2], it really went on into another level. I've done the three gun training, where you worked with the pistol, rifle and shotgun. So that all is in the film.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Work
  • Done
  • Movie

• The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.

  

  Thomas Malory
  • Purpose
  • Fight
  • Knight

• If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love.

  

  John Lithgow