John Lithgow Quotes
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.
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I wish I had not believed that my work would speak for itself; the working world requires a bit more than that.
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'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.
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We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.
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I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
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I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.
