John Lithgow Quotes
I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
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I'm not Madonna-famous and wouldn't want to be.
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Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
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Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
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I've been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.
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I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
