John Lithgow Quotes

My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.

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• When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.

  

  Verite
  • Story
  • Start
  • Sound

• I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Live
  • Enjoy
  • Moment

• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Movie
  • You

• I'm going for something very raw and organic.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Something
  • Very
  • Going

• I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Time
  • Help
  • Free

• I love improvising.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Improvising

• When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• You have to be proud of who you are.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Proud
  • Who

• Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Life
  • Great
  • Poetry

• People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Work
  • Live
  • Night

• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Lady
  • Seen

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Obsessed
  • Okay
  • Homeland

• O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Soul
  • Praise

• If you want to be loved, be lovable.

  

  Ovid
  • Want
  • Loved
  • Lovable

• I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Great
  • Family
  • Know

• Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

  

  George Berkeley
  • Truth
  • Game

• When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Up
  • Real
  • Desire

• I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.

  

  Kalan Sherrard
  • Art
  • Law
  • Successful

• I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Wife
  • Violence

• My wife has her own career and has been successful as well. The key for our success is mutual support for each other.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Career
  • Success
  • Support

• My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Wife