John Lithgow Quotes
My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.
John Lithgow
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner
Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself... I have very strong security.
Oleg Deripaska
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
Tatum O'Neal
I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
Zach Galifianakis
Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
Veruschka von Lehndorff
The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.
Chris Robinson
The Black Crowes
You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.
Chill Wills
The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
Byron Howard
I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these American Gothic fairytales. I feel like I sound inauthentic when I do that, so I tend to write from a personal standpoint.
Lauren Mayberry
Chvrches
As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.
P. J. O'Rourke
My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.
John Lithgow
