John Lithgow Quotes

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

John Lithgow

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• I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Wonderful
  • Directors

• I never left doo wop.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Left

• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Up
  • Good
  • Training

• Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Envy

• How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Live
  • Desert
  • Within

• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
  • Unfolding

• Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Career

• I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Man
  • Trump

• Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Understanding
  • Break

• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Words
  • Nothing
  • Equal

• The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • High
  • Gifts
  • Wicked

• The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Past
  • Difference

• I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Leader

• I spend a lot of time on my music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Spend

• I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Fashion
  • Loved
  • Shopping

• I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Years
  • Been

• The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Stage
  • Two

• Everyone in my family still lives in Kalamazoo.

  

  David Means
  • Family

• A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Earth
  • Happiness
  • Memory

• Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • People
  • Work
  • Die

• There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.

  

  Annalee Skarin
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Two

• For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

  

  John Lithgow