John Lithgow Quotes
I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.
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Courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.
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It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.
