John Lithgow Quotes
I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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Things are so much global and Americanised.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
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A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
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I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him.
