John Lithgow Quotes
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I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.
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Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
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It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.
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When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.
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We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.
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I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.
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Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
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Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.
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Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.
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I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me.
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My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet.
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I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.
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I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.
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My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.
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I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.
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I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
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As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids.
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I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
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My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.'
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When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.
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I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.
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Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.
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The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.
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I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful.