John Lithgow Quotes
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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I am happy in Paris.
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War is the province of danger.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
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Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
