John Lithgow Quotes
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
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It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
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Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
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Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.
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For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures, you should be able to tell what the story is about without having to read a word of text. That's what I think I brought from doing artwork for film to doing artwork for books.
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Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
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Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
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I loved growing up in Ohio.
