John Lithgow Quotes
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The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
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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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I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.
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I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.
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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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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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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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We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.
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I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
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We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.
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If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love.
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Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man.
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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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Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.
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I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.
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I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
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The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.
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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 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.
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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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My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.'
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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.