John Lithgow Quotes

Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.

John Lithgow

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• If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fall
  • Horse
  • Backup

• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Me
  • Give
  • Chastity

• You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • People
  • Music
  • Speak

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Model
  • Yourself
  • Red

• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Man
  • Know
  • Sensitive

• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Real
  • American
  • Group

• Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Cured

• 'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I don't want to be on the Internet.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • Internet

• If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Life
  • Want
  • Gift

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Regrets

• I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Work
  • Game
  • Stress

• All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Mean

• The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

  

  Anita Desai
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Book

• If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Want
  • You
  • Chickens

• Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Culture
  • Stress
  • Ugly