John Lithgow Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
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I love things that are easy to throw on, that I don't have to think about. Like skinny jeans and a T-shirt is easy for me.
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Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records was cool, but when people wanted to party, they got around a piano. My mother played piano, my sister played. I've been around a lot of piano all my life.
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We all know that a good example is more effective than advice. So set a good example, and it won't take long for others to follow.
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Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
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When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare.
