John Lithgow Quotes
I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.
Quotes to Explore
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
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In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
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In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
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When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.
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So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised.
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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.
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Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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I'm following a real event and real people.
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A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.
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From making documentaries all these years, it doesn't feel right to lead someone. In narratives, I'm always trying to shoot as though it's really happening, and I trust my actors are going to make decisions that I'm going to be following. I want to follow them.
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People are living vicariously through others, to be sure. As much as they hate it ... they get to live that through seeing it.
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Repeat the good. And the bad. Do it all...and pile on the years.
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I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.
