John Lithgow Quotes
In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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It took a while for anyone to want to publish 'To Repel Ghosts.' I thought people would want to publish a three-hundred-and-fifty-page book about a dead painter, but they didn't.
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Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.
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And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.
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I give myself pep talks. I have to tell myself how sexy I am - literally every day. I do. I look in the mirror and say, 'You are so sexy,' because everything else in my body is telling me, 'No, you're not.'
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In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.
