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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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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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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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.
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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.
