John Lithgow Quotes
Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I do not like violence.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.
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I'm overly sentimental and don't throw things away.
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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
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Blood: A red substance believed to be capable of supporting life but which in a theatrical drama invariably indicates death.
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Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'
