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.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Star
  • Get

• The earth laughs in flowers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flowers

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Support

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Money
  • Growing

• Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Understand
  • Sciences
  • Inventions

• Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Art
  • Theatre
  • First

• Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Human
  • Dimensions
  • Refugees

• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Immortality

• 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.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Him
  • Phone
  • Yesterday

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Great
  • Small

• ...just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.

  

  David Shields
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Violence

• This working together is just so important: you're either working together, or you're not working together.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Important
  • Together

• Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Up
  • Great
  • Perspective