John Lithgow Quotes
If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.
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Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
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Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
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I would love to set foot on another planet - lunar or Mars or somewhere.
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I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
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If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.
