John Lithgow Quotes
Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.
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I did go to an MFA program, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For me, it worked perfectly. It was a small program. They only take five fiction writers a year, and they fund all of us - you don't go into debt to get an MFA. It's not like getting an MBA - you're not going to buy yourself out.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.
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The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
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Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs.
